“I'm prepared for one big silence. Now my feet don't touch the ground. How'd I ever end up here?”— Placebo, open.spotify.com
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die . . . It doesn't matter what you do, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I take risks, sometimes patients die. But not taking risks causes more patients to die, so I guess my biggest problem is I've been cursed with the ability to do the math.”— Lawrence Kaplow, Thomas L. Moran, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“Our bodies break down, sometimes when we're ninety, sometimes before we're even boring, but it always happens and there's never any dignity in it. I don't care if you can walk, see, wipe your own ass. It's always ugly. Always. You can live with dignity, we can't die with it.”— David Shore, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“If you're dying, suddenly everybody loves you.”— Lawrence Kaplow, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“You know what? Forget what I just said. You’re already a part of this. You will eat, you will laugh at stupid things, you will stay up all night just to see what it feels like, you will fall painfully in love, you will have babies of your own, you will doubt and regret and yearn and keep a secret. Y…”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Everyone dies. The don't all have the chance to see what they wanted most.”— Ally Condie, 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
“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
“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
“Life insurance is literally a measure of how much I am worth to someone if I died.”— IAMPOMO1, reddit.com
“It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that if one day a year were devoted to it, everybody could get it out of the way and the rest of the year would be safe and free. In this manner he instituted National Suicide D…”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“There's something horribly unfair about dying in the middle of a good story, before you have a chance to see how it all comes out. Of course, I suppose everyone ALWAYS dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the story of your grandchildren. Death is a raw deal for narrativ…”— Joe Hill, amazon.com