“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”— Mary Shelley, amazon.com
“Whenever I see a dead body, death seems to me a departure. The corpse looks to me like a suit that was left behind. Someone went away and didn’t need to take the one and only outfit he’d worn.”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com
“Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“When I die I want my remains scattered at Disneyland. But I don't want to be cremated first.”— RedditIsFantastic, reddit.com
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“She laughed and danced with the thought of death in her heart.”— Hans Christian Andersen, amazon.com
“Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die…”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“I hate death, it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless. But my dad still talks to me. In my sleep.”— John Lydon, telegraph.co.uk
“I shall do one thing in this life - one thing certain - that is, love you, and long for you, and keep wanting you till I die.”— Thomas Hardy, amazon.com
“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“Each time we don’t say what we want to say we’re dying. Make a list of how many times you died this week.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.”— Oliver Sacks, nytimes.com
“It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. [He] was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”— John Green, amazon.com
“Did you hear about the chef that died? He pasta way. We cannoli do so much. His legacy will become a pizza history. He ran out of thyme He lentil us some of his best secrets.”— pm-me-big-boobies, reddit.com
“My mother died two weeks ago and my son hasn’t attended English classes since. I think he’s missing gramma.”— johnnykitd, reddit.com