“If a plane crashes, and one person survives, everyone thanks God. They say: 'God had a purpose for that person. God saved her for a reason!' Do we not realize how cruel that is? Do we not realize how cruel it is to say that if God had a purpose for that person, he also had a purpose in killing every…”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“The simple fact about progress is that the future of mankind has nothing to offer the individual life, except death.”— Hannah Arendt, nybooks.com
“Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time thinking about death.”— John Green, Hazel, amazon.com
“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“In every way that counted, I was dead. Inside somewhere maybe I was screaming and weeping and howling like an animal, but that was another person deep inside, another person who had no access to the lips and face and mouth and head, so on the surface I just shrugged and smile and kept moving.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child - you grow up knowing you aren't allowed to disappoint, you're not even allowed to die.”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“I like checking days off a calendar—151 days crossed and nothing truly horrible has happened. 152 and the world isn’t ruined. 153 and I haven’t destroyed anyone. 154 and no one really hates me. Sometimes I think I won’t ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to ge…”— Gillian Flynn, amazon.com
“So when a secret affair is revealed, it’s devastating, destructive, and something we all would like to avoid -- but it’s also a moment that can make us finally, fully honest about what’s been missing, and what’s worth saving.”— Anna Sale, wnyc.org
“My husband and I had been together for so long and I came to realize that he in a lot of ways had stopped paying attention. I think to a certain extent we were both sort of invisible to each other.”— Sheri, wnyc.org
“It became more painful to not do it and to just test the waters and say, maybe this is the only guy that I’ll ever be in love with and for me to deny myself that -- that would be terrible.”— Ali, wnyc.org
“Having an affair seems like such a big decision. Of course, it’s really a series of small choices.”— Anna Sale, wnyc.org
“Sometimes losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it.”— Amy Sedaris, amazon.com
“I always hated those classic kid movies like Old Yeller or The Yearling where the beloved pet dies. What would be so wrong with having those damn kids learn their lessons about mortality from watching Grandpa kick? Then at least the dog would be around to comfort them.”— Merrill Markoe, amazon.com
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”— Will Rogers, books.google.com
“I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“It was deeply a part of Lee's kindness and understanding that man's right to kill himself is inviolable, but sometimes a friend can make it unnecessary”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“The killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com