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Here's the thing," he said. "People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm no...

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For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating wit...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

Ted," he said, "when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like ...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

But everyone knows someone who has died, I said. Why is it so hard to think about dying?'Because,' M...

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He told his friends that if they really wanted to help him, they would treat him not with sympathy b...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

I was astonished by his complete lack of self-pity. Morrie, who could no longer dance, swim, bathe, ...

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Mitch AlbomTuesdays with Morrie

It’s very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you’d always be as ignor...

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A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. M...

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Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we was...

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Mother TeresaThe Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.

Seven billion who need to be kept happy, and docile, until the end. How do you do that? What's the b...

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I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to lo...

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What happens if a car comes? We die.

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us. Santone, then, cannot be blamed for this cold...

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I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.

He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the m...

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I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that ro...

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I would far prefer to be told simply to go and die. It's straightforward. But people almost never sa...

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In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud ...

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I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate...

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Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.

Then the voice - which identified itself as the prince of this world, the only being who really know...

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Paulo CoelhoThe Devil and Miss Prym

Haven't you learned anything, not even with the approach of death? Stop thinking all the time that y...

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Paulo CoelhoVeronika Decides to Die

I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did d...

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That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn...

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but as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself ...

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Philip K. DickDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

You looked inhuman when you were dying, Doc, your eyes glistened like dimming stars, you were wastin...

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The question is whether suicide is the way out or the way in.

Death loves death, not life. Dying people love to know that others die with them; it is a comfort to...

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Ray BradburyA Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a paint...

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That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Sw...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself...

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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a ...

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I can't see the logic in medicating a grieving person like there was something wrong with her, and y...

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Richard WagnerThe Amateur's Guide To Death and Dying; Enhancing the End of Life

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And w...

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If there is another world he lives in bliss. If there is none he made the best of this.

There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.

I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Ti...

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As long as they talk about you, you're not really dead, as long as they speak your name, you continu...

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When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he'd ever ...

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Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone wh...

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Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really in...

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Simone WeilGravity and Grace

Death is not the end death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul ...

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Death is the ultimate enemy - and I find nothing reproachable in those who rage mightily against the...

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Rings and magazines; keychains and umbrellas; hats and glasses; rattles and radios. They looked like...

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The last good time always comes

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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Stephen KingRita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons

Get busy living or get busy dying.”― Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption

Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming e...

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Be happy that after living so many lives, I finally found something to die for

Because through the heavy water, I heard the sound of an angel calling my name, calling me to the on...

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Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death,...

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Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end den...

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Let’s face it, life is trivial, and my guess is that dying imparts very little wisdom on those in pr...

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Sue GraftonI is for Innocent

Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I ...

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The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying wi...

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To Tiffany's surprise, Nanny Ogg was weeping gently. Nanny took another swig from her flagon and wip...

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The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.

We are aberrations—beings born undead, neither one thing nor another, or two things at once … uncann...

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Thomas LigottiThe Conspiracy Against the Human Race

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to th...

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I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

Death - the last voyage the longest the best.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefo...

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I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water wh...

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