Grief does not change you. It reveals you.

~ John Green

John Green Death Dying Grief

Their's not to make reply,Their's not to reason why,Their's but to do and die.

~ Lbid

Lbid Death Dying Grief

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

~ Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry Death Died Dying Family Grief Mourn

The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by its passing, just as I have yours.

~ Kellie Elmore

Kellie Elmore Death Of A Loved One Dying Grief Grieving Quotes

Reading Aloud to My Father I chose the book haphazardfrom the shelf, but with Nabokov's firstsentence I knew it wasn't the thingto read to a dying man:The cradle rocks above an abyss, it began,and common sense tells us that our existenceis but a brief crack of lightbetween two eternities of darkness.The words disturbed both of us immediately,and I stopped. With music it was the same --Chopin's Piano Concerto — he asked meto turn it off. He ceased eating, and dranklittle, while the tumors briskly appropriatedwhat was left of him.But to return to the cradle rocking. I thinkNabokov had it wrong. This is the abyss.That's why babies howl at birth,and why the dying so often reachfor something only they can apprehend.At the end they don't want their handsto be under the covers, and if you should putyour hand on theirs in a tentative gestureof solidarity, they'll pull the hand free;and you must honor that desire,and let them pull it free.

~ Jane Kenyon

Jane Kenyon Comfort Daughters Dying Fathers Grief

It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain.

~ Barbara Taylor Bradford

Barbara Taylor Bradford Dying Finality Grief Love Pain

I could simply kill you now, get it over with, who would know the difference? I could easily kick you in, stove you under, for all those times, mean on gin, you rammed words into my belly. (p. 52)

~ Barbara Blatner

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oh. she heard it too-no waters coursing, canyon empty, sun soundless- and the beast your life nowhere hiding (p. 103)

~ Barbara Blatner

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...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and still the hot muck pours out of you. (p. 27)

~ Barbara Blatner

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blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear, in shadow and out. and on and through everything everywhere the sun shines without reservation (p. 97)

~ Barbara Blatner

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I can’t look people in the eye and tell them that they’re going to die anymore.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

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My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.

~ Simona Panova

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Don’t wait for the last hour of life, to do the things you wish to do.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the most constant things in life. Segundo smiled up at them, happy at least to be dying among friends.

~ Orson Scott Card

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Don't risk your life for those that doesn't love your life, lest you end up in regrets if not death.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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with ringworm, lice bites, and a million bugs. Men so sick they are dying

~ Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry Dying Men

Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?

~ Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo Death Dying God Men

That’s my dream. It’s always the same. Always. Every little detail. And every time I have it, it’s just as scary as the last.(…)It’s so real, I feel as if I’ve already died hundreds of times.

~ Haruki Murakami

Haruki Murakami Dream Dying

His eyesight was possessed by the colours of trauma, cracking and bubbling like an old Super Eight film to remind him of his near-death drowning some two months ago in that very moment when he needed to act.

~ Luke Taylor

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Think of the great poetry, the music and dance and ritual that spring forth from our aspiring to a life beyond death. Maybe these things are justification enough for our hopes and dreams, although I wouldn't say that to a dying man.

~ Don Delillo

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He wore the memory of her embrace like armor, and though he knew it would not save his life, it would be all that was left to him to ease his passage into whatever lay beyond.

~ Andrew Levkoff

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We must leave Christmas to be what it is, for to reduce it to the stuff of myth and whimsy is take the single and sole hope of a dying humanity and obliterate it. And I would contend that such an action is insanity of the greatest sort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the best way to calm down a scared kid, get them to go back to sleep? Tell them a story. Some shit about Jesus or whatever.

~ Neal Stephenson

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Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

~ Mother Teresa

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When you have left your life, you will be judged not for your possessions but for your contributions.

~ Debasish Mridha

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When you commit a crime to upgrade yourself, your sin becomes a blessing, but your blessing kills you before your time.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. There's no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you ever thought you'd want to return.

~ John Corey Whaley

John Corey Whaley Dying Loneliness

Madoka: Won't anyone notice that Mami-san is dead?Homura: Mami Tomoe's only relatives are distant relations. It will be quite some time before anyone files a missing persons report. When one dies on that side of the wards, not even a body is left behind. She'll wind up forever a missing person... That is what happens to magical girls in the end.Madoka: ...That's too cruel! Mami-san has been fighting all alone for a long time for everyone's sake! For no one to even notice that she's gone... That's just too lonely a fate...Homura: It is just that kind of contract that gives us the power in the first place. It isn't for anyone else's sake. We fight on for the sake of our own prayer. So for no one to notice... for the world to forget us... That is just something we have to accept.

~ Magica Quartet

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it will make sense the moment you come Home. I could see it all so clearly. I could see what it is that we are waiting for. I knew in one solitary moment why I had learned obedience and why I valued nothing on the earth but love. It’s all that matters. It is all there is.

~ Kate Mcgahan

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But as in the degrees of sickness thou art to submit to God, so in the kind of it (supposing equal degrees) thou art to be altogether indifferent whether God call thee by a consumption or an asthma, by a dropsy or palsy, by a fever in thy humours, or a fever in your spirits; because all such nicety of choice is nothing but a colour to a legitimate impatience, and to make an excuse to murmur privately, and for circumstances, when in the sum of affairs we durst not own impatience.”Jeremy Taylor’s “Holy Dying”, extract from chapter IV.I (The Practice of Patience) para 5.

~ Jeremey Taylor

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Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into its tender soil to cradle and nourish it to grow. Came a time, just springtime last, our infant child pushed through the fragile barrier of her womb. Her legs branched out, just as the wood branches out from these eternal trees around us; but she was not hardy as they. My wife groaned with blood and ceased to breathe. Aye!, a scornful eve that bred the kind of pain only a god can withstand.

~ Roman Payne

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Death is misery! The lifeless person was once full of life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms.

~ Anthony Liccione

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Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about

~ John Green

John Green Death Dying Inspirational Religion Suffering

I don't have to kill myself, living my life is just the same.

~ Aaron Scheerer

Aaron Scheerer Dying Lonely Sad Suicide

In fact, no form of death places a greater burden on society than suicide, for the act of suicide is the way a person seeks to resolve his alienation from a cooperative society.

~ Shinmon Aoki

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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

~ Emil M. Cioran

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Welcome to Final Forum. Use this board to communicate with other who are completers. Please note: Participants may not attempt to dissuade or discourage self termination. Disregard for free will informed consent will result in immediate removal from the board. Future access to Through-The-Light will be denied. This board is monitored at all times.That's comforting. I've been to suicide boards before where people get on and say stuff like, Don't do it. Suicide is not the answer.They don't know the question.Or, Life's a bitch. Get used to it.Thanks.Suicide is the easy way out.If it's so easy, why am I still here?And my favorite: God loves you. Life is the most precious gift from God. You will break God's heart if you throw His gift away.God has a heart? That's news to me.People on boards are very, very shallow.The Final Forum has a long list of topic, including: Random Rants, Bullied, Divorce, Disease, So Tired, Hate This Life, Bleak, Bequests, Attempts.Already I like this board. I start with Random Rants.

~ Julie Anne Peters

Julie Anne Peters Death Dying Forums Suicidal Suicide

If you have never did a mistake, then death is impossibe, but then, death is a possible mistake.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

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Some are in tune with the swanky, but not in tune with themselves. Their desire has become the desire of the others ('''Buying now. Dying later''')

~ Erik Pevernagie

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