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  • #1
    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Mark Twain

  • #2
    Lemony Snicket
    “It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
    Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

  • #3
    Sarah Dessen
    “That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”
    Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

  • #4
    William Shakespeare
    “When he shall die,
    Take him and cut him out in little stars,
    And he will make the face of heaven so fine
    That all the world will be in love with night
    And pay no worship to the garish sun.”
    William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

  • #5
    Mitch Albom
    “Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
    Mitch Albom

  • #6
    Anaïs Nin
    “People living deeply have no fear of death.”
    Anaïs Nin

  • #7
    Terry Pratchett
    “DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.”
    Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

  • #8
    Benjamin Franklin
    “Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #9
    Antonio Porchia
    “One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
    Antonio Porchia

  • #10
    “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
    Thomas Campbell

  • #11
    John Irving
    “When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
    John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

  • #12
    Sylvia Plath
    “Dying
    Is an art, like everything else.
    I do it exceptionally well.
    I do it so it feels like hell.
    I do it so it feels real.
    I guess you could say I have a call.”
    Sylvia Plath, Ariel

  • #13
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #14
    Dylan Thomas
    “Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
    Dylan Thomas

  • #15
    Franz Kafka
    “The meaning of life is that it stops.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #16
    John Steinbeck
    “It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
    John Steinbeck, شرق بهشت

  • #17
    Norman Cousins
    “Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
    Norman Cousins

  • #18
    Charles Bukowski
    “I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #19
    Charles Bukowski
    “there is a place in the heart that
    will never be filled

    a space

    and even during the
    best moments
    and
    the greatest times
    times

    we will know it

    we will know it
    more than
    ever

    there is a place in the heart that
    will never be filled
    and

    we will wait
    and
    wait

    in that space.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #20
    Eckhart Tolle
    “Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.”
    Eckhart Tolle

  • #21
    William Shakespeare
    “So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
    William Shakespeare, Richard III

  • #22
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
    Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

  • #23
    Christopher Hitchens
    “What do you most value in your friends?
    Their continued existence.”
    Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

  • #24
    Janet Fitch
    “The phoenix must burn to emerge.”
    Janet Fitch, White Oleander

  • #25
    Anne Sexton
    “Live or die, but don't poison everything.”
    Anne Sexton

  • #26
    John Grogan
    “. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.”
    John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog

  • #27
    Elizabeth Berg
    “There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”
    Elizabeth Berg, The Year of Pleasures

  • #28
    Marcel Proust
    “People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #29
    Charles Bukowski
    “Dying should come easy:
    like a freight train you
    don't hear when
    your back is
    turned.”
    Charles Bukowski, The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems – Gritty and Inspiring Unpublished Verse by Charles Bukowski

  • #30
    Maya Angelou
    “When Great Trees Fall

    When great trees fall,
    rocks on distant hills shudder,
    lions hunker down
    in tall grasses,
    and even elephants
    lumber after safety.

    When great trees fall
    in forests,
    small things recoil into silence,
    their senses
    eroded beyond fear.

    When great souls die,
    the air around us becomes
    light, rare, sterile.
    We breathe, briefly.
    Our eyes, briefly,
    see with
    a hurtful clarity.
    Our memory, suddenly sharpened,
    examines,
    gnaws on kind words
    unsaid,
    promised walks
    never taken.

    Great souls die and
    our reality, bound to
    them, takes leave of us.
    Our souls,
    dependent upon their
    nurture,
    now shrink, wizened.
    Our minds, formed
    and informed by their
    radiance,
    fall away.
    We are not so much maddened
    as reduced to the unutterable ignorance
    of dark, cold
    caves.

    And when great souls die,
    after a period peace blooms,
    slowly and always
    irregularly. Spaces fill
    with a kind of
    soothing electric vibration.
    Our senses, restored, never
    to be the same, whisper to us.
    They existed. They existed.
    We can be. Be and be
    better. For they existed.”
    Maya Angelou



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