“ I spend a lot of time wondering what dying feels like. What dying sounds like. If I’ll burst like those notes, let out my last cries of pain, and then go silent forever. Or maybe I’ll turn into a shad… Jasmine Warga
“ I worried I would miss it, and I knew, from losing Wyatt, that things happen the moment the soul is released. Wyatt had been there in the school, watching me, making sure I survived. Souls linger…they… Laura Anderson Kurk
“ What matters most, is not how my end happens, or if it happens now. What I care about in this instant, is that she knows how much I love her—that I lived long enough to have her love me back. Emm Cole
“ Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time. Nenia Campbell
“ I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day. Osamu Dazai
“ The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very hard. Mark Slouka
“ I don't want to merely exist, Parker. I want to live. I want to leave the world with that one sweet moment. Whitney Barbetti
“ Directing a funeral isn’t about death at all. Funerals are for the living, not the dead. Rebecca McNutt
“ I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never say, "Die!" Paltry, prudent hypocrites! Osamu Dazai
“ Ever two seconds, somewhere in the world, a child dies of starvation. That means every two seconds there is a story where the main character dies. That's a lot of horrible stories. So if my death look… Mohiro Kitoh
“ Give me the Black Death over a Victorian prude any day. At least the dying screw like it's their last day on earth. R.E. Vance
“ As for dying, he didn't believe that he was frightened of it: the manner of it, perhaps, but not the fact of it. After all, he had reached an age where dying had started to become an objective reality… John Connolly
“ Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we’ve actually lived in the first place? Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ Maybe that was why the French called orgasms “las petites morts”: because the things that bring us passion tend to slip past our defenses, to creep insidiously into every facet of our consciousnesses… Nenia Campbell
“ Growing up, I always had a soldier mentality. As a kid I wanted to be a soldier, a fighter pilot, a covert agent, professions that require a great deal of bravery and risk and putting oneself in grave… Criss Jami
