“ I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time. Will Schwalbe
“ But we who remain shall grow oldWe shall know the coldOf cheerlessWinter and the rain of Autumn and the stingOf poverty, of love despised and of disgraces,And mirrors showing stained and aging faces,… Ford Madox Ford (Ford Madox Hueffer )
“ Death be not proud though some have called Thee Mighty and dreadful for thou art not so. John Donne
“ There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see. Robert Frost
“ A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more… Aldous Huxley
“ They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending future, waiting themselves for death, at the foot of the dead, in a ho… Jack Kerouac
“ It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha my little dear' I say 'Your clan will pay me back one day.' Dorothy Parker
“ Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying? Roman Payne
“ And what cats have to tellon each return from hellis this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not knowthat dying is what, to live,… Alastair Reid
“ I've felt it for some time now, closing around me like the jaws of a gigantic flower. Isn't that a peculiar analogy? It feels that way, though. It has a certain vegetable inevitability. Think of the V… Michael Cunningham
