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A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories.
Alan Bradley
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When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.This is the duality of loss.
Christina Rasmussen
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I cannot live, if I am already dead.
Donna Russo Morin
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Souls are flowers, only God has the right to pluck them. But those who commit suicide: their souls are the rotten blossoms of devil's garden.
Munia Khan
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Die in a good way, obviously.
Mindy Kaling
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Perhaps we meet our heaven at the start and not the end of life.
John Updike
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Time doesn’t heal all wounds. We both know that’s bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.
Adam Silvera
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Death wasn't a movie where the pretty star faded away with a touch of pale makeup and every hair in place.'s Song
Soheir Khashoggi
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When people pass on we must choose how to remember them. While our loved ones sleep for eternity we must carry on with our daily toil. We can elect to harbor adoration and love in our precious memories or cling to animosity and detestation. We can kindly remember our ancestors or continue to feel embedded enmity towards people who no longer walk this earth. Regardless the human frailties of the recently departed, it seems that we should aspire to clutch the best part of our ancestors being fast to our hearts. A book encapsulating a departed person’s life has many pages; we must choose which chapters to treasure and what chapters to disregard or downplay.
Kilroy J. Oldster
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It is better to die honorably and render yourself immortal than live to old age and fade to dust.
Livia Blackburne
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When I'd woken the next morning, I'd done so in a dislocated world of dimmed daylight and diluted colors, a sodden world, feeling like I was a castaway on an alien planet.
Keith Houghton
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Are you scared?Of what? Dying. Jemma was nothing, if she was not blunt.I’m not expecting to die, Jemma. I’m expecting to have treatment, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, whatever it takes, but I’m expecting to come through this.
Calvin Wade
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Small said, But what about when we are dead and gone, will you love me then, does love go on?…Large (replied) Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies, for you see…love like starlight never dies…
Debi Gliori
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मान्छे जति बूढो हुँदै जान्छ, त्यति क्षीण हुन्छ । र, उ मृत्युका लागि पनि असक्षम हुन्छ । उ चाहेर पनि मर्न सक्दैन ।
Nirmal Gyanwali
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¿Acaso un artista puede amar tanto su trabajo que, si piensa que su obra no tiene vida, tampoco él quiere tenerla ya?
Lygia Bojunga Nunes
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It made leaving bearable, knowing I'd had that kind of love in my life. Knowing I'd had the best thing.
Saul Black
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Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever. I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God and with death there would be no longer the daily possibility of love dying. The nightmare of a future of boredom and indifference would lift. I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.
Graham Greene
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Life has to end, she said. Love doesn't.
Mitch Albom
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Then I looked out onto the horizon myself and realized that loss is the same wherever you go: overwhelming, inexorable, deafening. How resilient human beings are that we can learn slowly to carry on when we are left all alone, left to fill the void as best we can. Or disappear into it.' Choir
Jennifer Ryan
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One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.
Baba Tunde OjoOlubiyo
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I waited for the Earth to stop spinning, for the rift to open and swallow us. Yet the ash tree remained framed in the window, refused to fall. Rain streaked the glass. Blood throbbed in my ears. Preternatural silence. The cruellest April.I was not deceived. What I saw was samsara, illusion. The world had ended. I was sure of it.
John Dolan
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The world slides, the world goes and death makes equal the rich and the poor
Bangambiki Habyarimana
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... after daybreak is when I will already have died. At that moment I will only know of beautiful things: the certainties, the desires. When the sun bathes me, I will be something else: without mirrors, without sadness. I will have passed away, but will have been reborn. I will whistle mellifluous melodies. Discredited but, in the end, light.
Ondjaki
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Él no se mató, no. Murió como..., como todo el mundo un día muere.
Lygia Bojunga Nunes
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To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Eventually, that feeling fades, but there is always the memory of those days. When you’re young, everything is butterflies. What I mean is—it’s all new. I guess he was telling you to still believe, to hold on to your butterflies.
Brian Joyce
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Sometimes it took death for me to see life, don't live with regrets keep your head high. In a world filled with beauty I don't want to blink twice; soak up every moment because you can't stop time.
Puerto Rican Princess
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Death’s life should have listened to the moonly whispers of breathing in the coldest nights
Munia Khan
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Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.
Virginia Woolf
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No one wants to go into a nursing home. My patients fear it; families often feel terrible guilt when the time comes: it is thought of as an abandonment. Nursing homes are where we place our bad outcomes, our frail, our no-longer-independents. They are places people go to wait safely to die. The old doubly incontinents. You might have stood up to Stalin, you might still read Tolstoy, but if you're losing it from both the front and back and you're not a two-year-old, you're going to be hidden away. Don't know the nursing homes, they do a pretty good job, a geriatrician said to me. And most of the time they perform their function: as a holding bay for old people. Most of the time.
Karen Hitchcock
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To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.
Socrates
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At the end of life, nobody knows where the spirit goes.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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The loss of a loved one is like the loss of a part of oneself; an arm or a leg. At first, the pain is so physical that it is hard to ignore. The trauma is so intense that the mind finds it hard to cope with the loss. With time the pain eases, the body recovers and the brain figures out new ways to go on.
Federico Chini
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I guess it was only fitting that to them PUNK was a four letter word. However, to people like Dylan and I-punk was our hearts-our souls. We grew up with a lot of uncertainties. To be a teenager isn't always pretty and our music reflected that.
Brian Joyce
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Top question of the dying: What made me sick?
Steven Magee
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You still are? There go my plans! And the suit I had bought to attend your funeral. Well, well. Anyway, do call me up when you an't.
Fakeer Ishavardas
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We could endlessly reminisce, live in the past to an unhealthy degree, then politely kill each other some winter night before bedtime, stirring poison into our cups of whiskey-spiked chamomile tea, wearing party hats. Then, nervous about our double homicide, we could lie in bed together, holding hands again, frightened and waiting, still wondering, after all these years, if we even believed in our own souls.
Timothy Schaffert
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Fiction is an urgent business. It is the Dying Us telling stories to the Dying Us, trying to crack the nonsense in our heads open with a big hammer pronto, before Death arrives.
George Saunders
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It's... no, nothing. She grunted, turning from the screen with her vodka. I am starting to think Morris is right. We're just f---ed. Us, Colby, the whole human race.Maybe, Teagan said noncommittally. Some days I believe that. I look at this f---ed up bloody world and see we don't be needing the likes of monster-gods with unpronounceable names to come and do the job for us. We do just fine screwing ourselves, don't we?
Mary SanGiovanni
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It is this, not the spirits, that frightens us; shall we never be free, even after we die?
Emilie Autumn
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Death is the only certainty in life. The moment we are born, our journey towards our final destination begins. It’s the beauty or the ugliness of that journey that defines our life; the distances covered varying in each case. Every flower that has bloomed in the free breeze of spring has to wither in the cruel icy autumn draught.
Anurag Shourie
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Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.
Jonathan Harnisch
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But he drank a lot. When love dies, he told me, there are no survivors.
Eion Colfer
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When those who name dead people have gone, there just remains the calmness of foreign cemeteries, in which nothing appears familiar and nothing frightens you.'t Love Us Anymore
Ray Loriga
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Ya me sobrará tiempo para descansar cuando me muera, pero esta eventualidad no está todavía en mis proyectos.
Gabriel García Márquez
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Et Tu Bruté?
Gaius Julius Caesar
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Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into its tender soil to cradle and nourish it to grow. Came a time, just springtime last, our infant child pushed through the fragile barrier of her womb. Her legs branched out, just as the wood branches out from these eternal trees around us; but she was not hardy as they. My wife groaned with blood and ceased to breathe. Aye!, a scornful eve that bred the kind of pain only a god can withstand.
Roman Payne
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You’ll live for as long as you live and once you stop living, you don’t have to worry about staying alive any more because you’ll be dead.
Sebastyne Young
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The tragedy of life is not death, but fearing to live, allowing parts of us to wilt and die instead of flower and rejoice.
Kilroy J. Oldster
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Some deaths were long, the decay so gradual the rotted end was nothing more than a sigh disappearing in the wind.Others were quick, the abrupt cut of a life in mid-phrase leaving unanswered questions lingering like an unresolved harmony.
Emma Raveling
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