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They say that if you really want to kill yourself, no one can stop you. There are too many ways to do it. You can jump off a bridge or a building. You can hang yourself. You can crash a car or slit your wrists or swim out really far into the ocean until you drown. Sometimes I wonder why I'm not dead, if I really wanted to kill myself.

~ Albert Borris

Albert Borris Death Depression Suicide

For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person. (on Margaret Thatcher)

~ Frankie Boyle

Frankie Boyle Dark Humor Death Devil Funeral Funny Hell Humor Humour Margaret Thatcher Politics Scotland

When you attempt suicide, the counselors try to talk you out of trying it again by asking you about other people, which is good prevention if you care about other people.

~ Albert Borris

Albert Borris Death Depression Suicide

I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight; I have been labouring under the delusion they were about five and six. And yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard being very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably shaggy. I feel the tomb is just around the corner. And there are all these books I haven't read yet, even if I am simultaneously reading at least twenty...

~ Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey Ageing Aging Death Old Age Reading

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

~ Leonard Sweet

Leonard Sweet Change Death Life Living Stagnation

What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies to become a piece of firewood, and the firewood dies to become ash. You give different names to the different shapes the wood takes, but the basic substance is there always. If we could always remember this, we would never worry about the loss of anything. We never lose anything; we never gain anything. By such discrimination we put an end to unhappiness. (118-119)

~ Swami Satchidananda

Swami Satchidananda Death Death And Dying Unhappiness

I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens Death English Language French Time

I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance. It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever—that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard. These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences. Yet from whom has not that rude hand rent away some dear connection? And why should I describe a sorrow which all have felt, and must feel? The time at length arrives when grief is rather an indulgence than a necessity; and the smile that plays upon the lips, although it may be deemed a sacrilege, is not banished. My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized.

~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Death Mourning

A flower bloomed already wilting. Beginning its life with an early ending.

~ R.j. Gonzales

R.j. Gonzales Birth Complications Death Loss Loss Of A Baby Miscarriage Sad Sadness Tragedy

Why is it we have so little choice? We live like the lowliest worms. Always defeated - defeated we make dinner, we eat, we sleep. Everyone we love is dying. Sill, to cease living is unacceptable.

~ Banana Yoshimoto

Banana Yoshimoto Death Life Love

There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.

~ Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert Death Life Mortality Wealth

A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I'll sell them for a dollarThey're worth so much more after I'm a gonerAnd maybe then you'll hear the words I been singin'Funny when you're dead how people start listenin

~ Kimberly Perry

Kimberly Perry Bittersweet Dark Death Inspirational

Shinji slowly fell forward onto his face. Debris bounced up on impact. It took less than thirty seconds for the rest of his body to die. The memento of his beloved uncle--the earring worn by the woman he loved--was now stained with the blood running down Shinji's left ear, reflecting the glow from the red flames of the farm building.And so the boy known as the Third Man, Shinji Mimura, was dead.

~ Koushun Takami

Koushun Takami Death Sad Shinji

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.

~ John Fowles

John Fowles Death War

I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.

~ Mark Twain

Mark Twain Death Humor

Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.

~ Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman Change Death Life

For Death is the meaning of night;The eternal shadowInto which all lives must fall, All hopes expire.

~ Michael Cox

Michael Cox Death Despair Hopelessness Life Night

It's okay to talk about it. Death is so normal, I don't know why everyone gets so hung up about it. We all have to deal with it. Most people that you talk to have lost someone, but nobody talks about it.

~ Rachel Ward

Rachel Ward Death

Is anyone who's supposed to be dead actually dead?

~ Karen Marie Moning

Karen Marie Moning Death

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

~ Stephen Levine

Stephen Levine Acceptance Death Dying Life Living Opportunity

It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter, the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands, the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!

~ Roman Payne

Roman Payne Death

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

~ Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman America Death

Of all the miracles Po had seen in the time and space of its death, Po thought this--the absorption of another, the carrying of it--was the most bewildering and remarkable of all. Whenever Bundle separated again, Po was left with an ache of sadness that reminded the ghost of the body it had left behind.

~ Lauren Oliver

Lauren Oliver Ache Afterlife Death Ghost Grief Loss Merging Sadness Separation

Death truly does have life, and walks with and lives through us everyday.

~ Nicholas A. Mcgirr

Nicholas A. Mcgirr Death Life Life And Death

I have seem even those who have long since abjured God die in grace. . . . Atheists don't use their drying to bargain for a better seat at the table, indeed they may not even believe supper is being served. They are not storing up 'merit.', They just smile because their heart is ripe. They are kind for no particular reason, they just love.

~ Stephen Levine

Stephen Levine Atheism Compassion Death Dying Kindness Love

When the clock stops on a life, all things emanating from it become precious, finite, and cordoned off for preservation. Each aspect of the dead person is removed from the flux of the everyday, which, of course, is where we miss him most. The quarantine around death makes it feel unlucky and wrong--a freakish incursion--and the dead, thus quarantined, come to seem more dead than they already are.... Borrowing from the dead is a way of keeping them engaged in life's daily transactions--in other words, alive.

~ Jennifer Egan

Jennifer Egan Borrowing Death Everyday Loved Ones

I am Death. I come quickly, I come slowly, but I am not cheated.

~ Erika Johansen

Erika Johansen Death

Nico didn’t like to be touched, but somehow this brief contact with his father felt reassuring – the same way the Chapel of Bones was reassuring. Like death, his father’s presence was cold and often callous, but it was real – brutally honest, inescapably dependable.

~ Rick Riordan

Rick Riordan Death Family Foreboding Hades Impending Doom Nico Di Angelo Reassurance

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

~ Tom Ford

Tom Ford Artiface Death Importance Life Time

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history.

~ Norman Doidge

Norman Doidge Ancestors Death Ghosts Grief Healing The Past Loss Memories Psychoanalysis Relationships

I just found this world a hard place to be good in,’ says Bunny, then he closes his eyes and, with an expiration of breath, goes still.

~ Nick Cave

Nick Cave Death Life

I asked him if it were a mirage, and he said yes. I said it was a dream, and he agreed, But said it was the desert's dream not his. And he told me that in a year or so, when he had aged enough for any man, then he would walk into the wind, until he saw the tents. This time, he said, he would go on with them.

~ Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman Death Desert Elderly Mirage

Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.

~ Tana French

Tana French Death

We think of mortality so little these days...I thought of the stern Victorian determination to keep death in mind, the uncompromising tombstones.Remember, pilgrim, as you pass by,As you are now so once was I:As I am so will you be...

~ Tana French

Tana French Death

That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.

~ Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz Death Loss Memory

The day after Paul Newman was dead, he was twice as dead.

~ Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak Afterlife Death Dying Tell Them Whatever You Want

I'm Allen Walker!My life....is over...I'm going to die....

~ Katsura Hoshino

Katsura Hoshino Allen Walker Angst Death Die Horror Humor Pain Sumon

In a world where everyone struggles to survive whatever the cost, how could one judge those who decide to die?

~ Paulo Coelho

Paulo Coelho Death Inspirational Life People Suicide Survival Writing

If you can overcome love, you can overcome fear. If you can overcome fear, you can overcome death.

~ Santosh Kalwar

Santosh Kalwar Death Fear Life Love

We're all drowning, but don't say it out loud.

~ Marty Rubin

Marty Rubin Death Denial Mortality
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