“ It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Eve… Robert Silverberg
“ We Let the Boat DriftI set out for the pond, crossing the ravine where seedling pines start up like sparks between the disused rails of the Boston and Maine.The grass in the field would make a second… Jane Kenyon
“ Just as I am watching a tongue of blue flame rising in the fire, and my lamp is burning low, the horrible contraction will begin in my chest. I shall only have time to reach the bell, and pull it viol… George Eliot
“ The guard looked down at the scarlet bloodstains blooming on his chest. He appeared to think of something that he needed to say, but as his lips began to form the words, his knees gave up the strain o… R.D. Ronald
“ How mighty you are as death comes upon you and your color fades. Yet from life and lush to bold array, screaming into the night. Kellie Elmore
“ Because through the heavy water, I heard the sound of an angel calling my name, calling me to the only heaven I wanted. Stephenie Meyer
“ And as if he had read her thoughts, the old man murmured, 'What a blessing it is to die in your own bed, under your own roof, with your family surrounding you, full of the knowledge that you have live… Anita Rau Badami
“ Are you afraid of dying?" "I was at first, maybe I still am a little bit. But it's not death that scares me so much as not being alive anymore. It's missing all the things that I would have seen if I… Deanna Lynn Sletten
“ When I asked her what was the matter? answered, she didn't know; but she felt so afraid of dying! Emily Bronte
“ This was how I would die. Strangled by an attractive, seminaked woman inside a fridge with a giant tarantula in the middle of a sea of carnivorous jam. As I blacked out, all I could think of was a for… Yahtzee Croshaw
“ When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone. Kiera Cass
“ ...nothing more excruciating when you are fighting for your life than to have healthy people round you, squabbling over futilities. Who do you love best, and who most do you want with you? Blithering… A.P.
“ How fun it would be to bounce on the back of Lidewij Vliegenthart’s bike down the brick streets, her curly red hair blowing into my face, the smell of the canals and cigarette smoke, all the people si… John Green
“ But dying is for the sweetest ones. And he remembers sweetness, when life was sweet, and sweetly he was given that other lifetime. Raymond Carver
“ If you were dying...If you were sixteen and dying...If your blood was spilling out of you, calling to them, the creatures of the night, and you knew you were dying...If you saw their pale faces and th… Tamara Summers
