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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The trigger gave; I felt the smooth underside of the butt; and there, in that noise, sharp and deafening at the same time, is where it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.
Albert Camus
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide
Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
Dennis Rodman
Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.
William Shakespeare
Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
Bobby Darin
Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.
Jane Smiley
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Edna Ferber
I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
Walter Savage Landor
I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
Kate Atkinson
I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
Hedy Lamarr
We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
Ann Landers
If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.
Robin Gibb
So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
Alastair Campbell
The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
W. H. Auden
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.
Indira Gandhi
I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.
Hugh Hefner
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
Henry James
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anais Nin