“ I was so often silent angry with Hammett for making the situation hard on me, not knowing then that the dying do not, should not, be asked to think about anything but their own minute of running time. Lillian Hellman
“ I hope I leave this world gracefully, like a pilgrim slips from the back of his donkey at the end of a long ride, like a traveler disembarks from an airplane that has carried him across a great ocean. Kim Wright
“ Life must be a constant education one must learn everything, from speaking to dying. Gustave Flaubert
“ Mitch, I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each morning, a few tears, and that's all. I thought about all the people I knew who spent many of their waking hours feeling sorry f… Mitch Albom
“ Where have you been? I asked weakly. A few minutes ago I would have rather died than questioned him. Let him know I care. But I'm too sick to be strong, kick ass Rayne at the moment.Vegas he says.I ra… Mari Mancusi
“ I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could because she was never coming back. She had fallen off the face of the earth and she was never coming back… Melissa Kantor
“ He nodded toward the window with the sunshine streaming in. "You see that? You can go out there, outside, anytime. You can run up and down the block and go crazy. I can't do that. I can't go out. I ca… Mitch Albom from "Tuesdays with Morrie"
“ I know a little of living and a little of dying. I know how to survive, i have mastered it as a soldier gains mastery of his weapons. Yet i prefer dying, for in dying i learn to live. Paul Bamikole
“ And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath. Mark Doty
“ The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. Norman Douglas
“ If there is another world he lives in bliss. If there is none he made the best of this. Robert Burns