“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.com
“You see, for days, I've been plagued by the question: how do I honor my father's legacy? Then I realized, I honor his legacy by taking what I learned from the way he lived his life and use it to shape the way I go on living mine.”— Dan Fogelman, Randall, Sterling K. Brown, imdb.com
“I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“She’s strong, because if she could get through the death of someone she loved more than words can ever express, then she can get through anything.”— Holly Riordan, thoughtcatalog.com
“It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive that you understand you’re going to die, and…”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“'One day you will die.' Not true! It will likely take several days.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“And there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“And tonight, like every night, they will cry to themselves in the dark while counting sheep, waiting for sleep – their short death at the end of every day.”— Nadé Marshall, thoughtcatalog.com
“I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use. Pleasant because one is in the best possible company and safe because sleep is the consummate protection against the unseemliness that is the invariable consequence of being awake. What you don't know won't hurt you. Sleep is death without th…”— Fran Lebowitz, amazon.com
“All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com
“It's hard to remember we're alive for the first time. It's hard to remember we're alive for the last time.”— Modest Mouse, open.spotify.com
“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface it seemed every person was different, this was not true. At the core of each lay suffering; our eventual end, the many losses we must experience on the way to that end. We must try to see one anothe…”— George Saunders, amazon.com
“His mind was freshly inclined towards sorrow; toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow; that everyone labored under some burden of sorrow; that all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged, neglecte…”— George Saunders, amazon.com