“ I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. Leonardo da Vinci
“ So cold your tears freeze against your cheeks.'It's not my fault,' I told Bear. 'I don't make the weather. You got a beef, take it up with God.' That's what I've been doing a lot lately: taking it up… Rick Yancey
“ I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all that time ago, and this is a ghost who has been telling you stories and drinkin… Peter S Beagle
“ As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continue. A legend doesn't die, just because the man dies. Rod Serling
“ For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts. He was intent on proving that the word 'dying' was not synonymous with 'useles… Mitch Albom
“ Instead of falling to the ground like a heavy doll, as Kermin had seen the prisoners do at the Chetnik executions, his mother shrank into herself, a reverse blossoming, coming to rest in a sitting pos… Reif Larsen
“ A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise. Matshona Dhliwayo
“ God is up to something, but you will never know unless you figure out the difference between who is the messenger carrying your future and who is the person holding you back. Shannon L. Alder
“ The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. Arundhati Roy
“ Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me mo… John Green
“ Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying?" (Seeing all her children assembled at her bedside in her last illness.) Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor
“ Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’slike to be dying, and (b) not have died. John Green
