The Institute for Creative Dying Quotes

“This was the difference between cured and healed, she thought. One you leave behind, another you live with.”
― Jarred Thompson, The Institute for Creative Dying

“Dianne, when you’re reconciled to the reality that you have been dying, that death is the condition of your survival, your growth, the very earth you walk on… you feel a shift, an appreciation.”
― Jarred Thompson, The Institute for Creative Dying

“Being here reminds me of the immensity that’s oddly quite comforting. Depending on what story you’re telling. The supercluster of galaxies that we’re part of – Laniakea – has given us these few billions of years, to play.”
“What does Laniakea mean?”
“Immeasurable heaven.”
― Jarred Thompson, The Institute for Creative Dying

“She thought about their time at Bridge Builders Hospice: how people passed through those bedrooms like ghosts on wrecked rowboats, incapable of redirecting course from the approaching cliff. She had witnessed it many times: the moment dying became a letting, and the currents plunged their patients, headfirst, into waterfalls so misty it was like sailing through cloud. Resist it nor not, it made no difference.”
― Jarred Thompson, The Institute for Creative Dying

“From the balcony I watch fish rise and fall in the rock pools. Must be nice to be surrounded by all that water, moving through it as it moves through you. No matter what you do or where you go, when you’re a fish water will always be there, holding you, even as you sleep.”
― Jarred Thompson, The Institute for Creative Dying

“Comfort is one of our top priorities. The best decisions are made from a position of comfort.” I looked down a little, looking back the way I came. “Fear is normal,” says Mustafa, noticing my slacked pace. “If you’d like to turn back now, you’re welcome to. This isn’t Sodom and Gomorrah.” His body faces forward, but his face is turned back to me. “I don’t want to be afraid.”
― Jarred Thompson, The Institute for Creative Dying

“No one ever asks us if we want to be alive, doc. It just happens. Why wouldn’t it be the same with death? We’re always getting things we don’t ask for.”
― jarred thompson, The Institute for Creative Dying