“2 November. This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I’m so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“Little Tim was in the garden filling in a hole... when his neighbor peered over the fence. Interested in what the cheeky-faced youngster was up to, he politely asked, ‘Whatcha doing, Tim?’ ‘My goldfish died,’ replied the boy tearfully, without looking up. ‘And I’ve just buried him.’ The neighbor was…”— ZeekOwl91, reddit.com
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”— Robert Fulghum, amazon.com
“We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we’re lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.”— Justin Cronin, amazon.com
“We’ve loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can’t stay together forever.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“We’re going to die. There’s nothing to stop it. There’s no protecting future generations. Fleeing to Mars won’t help. Science won’t stop Yellowstone.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“I wanted to be dead. I wanted the worry in my stomach to just stop for one, please ONE, second. That worry ate my stomach alive.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?”— Carson McCullers, amazon.com
“So the odds are on my side. I will live forever. Unless something weird happens. Like dying.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’m shocked to hear that you love me, and if I were not to hear it I’d want to die.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“Why must we pass from the world like locusts, and our life is like a vapor?”— Ezra, quod.lib.umich.edu
“I find I seek to die. And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.”— William Shakespeare, Claudio, shakespeare.mit.edu
“I wasn’t lost, or frozen, or gone… I was alive; I was alive in my own perfect world.”— Alice Sebold, amazon.com