“Sometimes when a person is very, very unhappy, they forget that they'll someday feel better and they just want to end the unhappiness.”— Diane Chamberlain, amazon.com
“I never dreamt it'd be this way I've lost any chance for me to say To say that I miss you, say that I love you Will someone please tell me I'm okay I wasn't prepared for what's to come A life made of memories gone so young And now I'm regretting all I've done But in your heart know that I'm with you…”— Amber Pacific, youtube.com
“Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?”— Andy Stanley, amazon.com
“Not only have I already purchased a gravesite, I visit it often and whisper, 'Soon, soon shall I sleep.'”— Conan O'Brien, twitter.com
“Upon death, instead of having my whole life flash before my eyes, I just want to watch Season 3 of The Sopranos again.”— Conan O'Brien, twitter.com
“Right before I die, if my life flashes before my eyes, I hope there aren't 30 second ads before each section.”— Conan O'Brien, twitter.com
“Death is that moment when any possibility of learning the unknown is lost, when the inadequate sum of what is known becomes the totality of what there is to know.”— David Shields, amazon.com
“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”— Samuel Johnson, wsj.com
“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“The worst pain isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.”— Jose Saramago, amazon.com
“You have to live the rest of your life knowing you're going to die someday and disappear forever.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“The once-great country into which I'd been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn't matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.”— Ernest Cline, amazon.com
“Your tombstone can say whatever you want it to say. It could say, 'Ross Geller, Good at Marriage!' Y'know? Mine's gonna say, 'Phoebe Buffay, Buried Alive.'”— Phoebe Buffay, amazon.com
“What does it taste like? he asks me, his breath a sweet impermanence. Tell me what it tastes like.”— J. Scott Browniee, narrativemagazine.com
“A giant asteroid might destroy Earth! Unfortunately, it won’t get here until 2135, so it looks like I still have to do the dishes.”— Stephen Colbert, twitter.com