“ 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
“ It is a dreadful thing to wait and watch for the approach of death; to know that hope is gone, and recovery impossible; and to sit and count the dreary hours through long, long, nights - such nights a… Charles Dickens
“ When I die, I would love to die smiling. If however I forget this, I hope I have someone there to make me smile. Fafore
“ I looked at her, exhausted in the hospital bed, and she looked at you, and you looked at me looking at her with eyes that had never known anything else, and for a moment there I swear we saw each othe… Garth Risk Hallberg
“ Do I have anything to lose? This life will be gone one day to the Creator who gave it. Lailah Gifty Akita
“ In the vast spectrum of space-time’s coeternal continuum, I am but a glint of bundled energy held together by the translucent fiber of creative consciousness. The misty dew of private thoughts that in… Kilroy J. Oldster
“ In the world you live in, one day you will be gone but you must fulfill your mission before departure. Lailah Gifty Akita
