“Normally it is not polite to go into somebody’s room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground. They are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us.”— Alexandre Dumas, amazon.com
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”— Alexandre Dumas, amazon.com
“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“One day I won’t be around to answer people’s questions, or advise young aspiring athletes. What I want to say is for the people whom I’ve never met. It is for the boys and girls whose hands I will never hold. It is for the champions to come. These comments are for every spirit on the downside of adv…”— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, amazon.com
“One day I won’t be around to answer people’s questions, or advise young aspiring athletes. What I want to say is for the people whom I’ve never met. It is for the boys and girls whose hands I will never hold. It is for the champions to come. These comments are for every spirit on the downside of adv…”— Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali, amazon.com
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“There are no happy endings, endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle, and a very happy start.”— Shel Silverstein, amazon.com
“The seeds of life— fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies’ ills or dulled by earthly limbs and flesh that’s born for death.”— Virgil, amazon.com
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting,…”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“It comes over us that we shall never again hear the laughter of our friend, that this garden is forever locked against us. And at that moment begins our true grief.”— Lauren Groff, amazon.com
“In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you or that you do not understand it.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Grandma died in January 1942. No one knows how often I think of her and still love her.”— Ann Frank, amazon.com
“When I was alive, I used to travel. When I died, Amit used to tell his friends that I was a pilot. It's a joke because you don't know where I am, just that I'm not coming back.”— Yena Sharma Purmasir, amazon.com
“Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure and spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of wa…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com