“ I have already lived long enough, Manon had written in late autumn, on an autumn day like today. I have lived and loved, I have had the best of this world. Why cry over the ending? Why cling to what r… Nina George
“ Watching a parent die is a terrible task. My father, faced with something he could not talk down or browbeat into submission, spent his days with the bottle, as if he determined to drink himself to de… Yudhanjaya Wijeratne
“ The cancer set into her bones and whittled her down to nothing. The weariness of the world and the weight in her heart laid her to rest in January. Rachel Autumn Deering
“ Ian " she said quietly "I'd rather die than go back to you." "Be careful what you ask for you may get what you want. Amanda Stephan
“ A sematary," I say. "A what?" Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their graves. Must be a hundred, maybe two, in orderly rows and well-kept grass. Settler life is hard and i… Patrick Ness
“ I have never fully unbosomed myself to any human being; I have never been encouraged to trust much in the sympathy of my fellow men. But we have all a chance of meeting with some pity, some tenderness… George Eliot
“ It's taken years for me to understand that dying doesn't end the story; it transforms it. Edits, rewrites, the blur, aand epiphany of one-way dialogue. Most of us wander in and out of one another's li… Gail Caldwell
“ If they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just what they were thinking and feeling, then they would just have looked into e… Leo Tolstoy
“ DON'T YOU DARE DIE ON ME, JEZEBEL! DON'T YOU DARE! Or I'll follow you to the next world and KILL you. L.J. Smith
“ Achala, worrying and scheming about your next life, before you have even completed this one, is not a good practice." Rinpoche Daniel Prokop
“ A paradigm shift of viewing palliative care or hospice as a gift instead of seeing it as giving up has the potential to change the way we experience advanced age. Lisa J. Shultz
“ When I first accepted my own death, the world was intantly changed. It was a completely new sensation. It took something like this to finally open my eyes. Before, I had simply shut myself off so that… Mohiro Kitoh
“ I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him there to be close to his death, I understood this also at the same moment. For who w… Barry Unsworth
“ Fear and hopelessness washed over her. She was looking her own mortality in the face, and it was a horrifying thing to do. Rose Wynters
