“ He saw either death or the approach of it everywhere. But his undertaking now occupied him all the more. He had to live his life to the end, until death came. Darkness covered everything for him; but… Leo Tolstoy
“ Death loves death, not life. Dying people love to know that others die with them; it is a comfort to learn you are not alone in the kiln, in the grave. Ray Bradbury
“ Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one. Vladimir Nabokov
“ When Andrew Jackson died someone asked a friend if he thought Old Hickory would go to heaven. 'He will if he wants to ' was the reply. On his death bed Disraeli declined a visit from Queen Victoria. '… Woodrow Wilson
“ The merciful Providence - or whatever power there is in the universe - has so ordained things that our little world will go on without us. Indeed, it will not miss us for long. It is a comfort to know… Anne Sullivan Macy
“ You're right," Early said. "Those are two different things.""What are?", I asked, surprised that he thought I was right about ANYTHING."Dying and sleeping. A person should be able to do one without th… Clare Vanderpool
“ Cand ne mor parintii, ne simtim intodeauna vulnerabili, pentru ca nu ne confruntam doar cu o pierdere, ci si cu propria moarte. Cand devenim orfani, intre noi si mormant nu mai sta nimeni. Irvin D. Yalom
“ Around around the sun we go: The moon goes round the earth. We do not die of death: We die of vertigo. Archibald MacLeish
“ Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task. Sigmund Freud
“ After sixty years the stern sentence of the burial service seems to have a meaning that one did not notice in former years. There begins to be something personal about it. Oliver Wendell Holmes
“ Epitaph n: an inscription on a tomb showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect. Ambrose Bierce
“ I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying. Woody Allen
“ At its most basic root the death or disintegration of one's parents is a harsh reminder of one's own mortality. Janet Harris
“ In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world. Fedirico Garcia Lorca
“ Lew had never seen a dead man before. He just stood there, and looked and looked. Then he went a step closer, and looked some more. 'So that's what it's like!' he murmured inaudibly. Finally Lew reach… Cornell Woolrich
“ Eventually our whole world, every culture, will explode and we'll all just be fucking cosmic dust. We'll all dissipate. We'll all be nothing and everything. What's more spiritual than that? Dash Shaw
“ It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die. Seneca
