And at times the fact of her absence will hit you like a blow to the chest, and you will weep. Lewis CarrollGuilt is perhaps the most painful companion to death. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world. Katharine HepburnWhen I shall die, let it be doing that I had designed. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. Thomas FullerDeath, for instance, is nothing terrible, but the terrible thing is the opinion that death is terrible. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves. Gilda RadnerI discovered to my joy, that it is life, not death, that has no limits. Eckhart TolleIn the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. David SeltzerAll men think that all men are mortal but themselves. Doug ManningThe only thing I know is everything you love will die. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do? It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. And yet death is the destination we all share. J.K. RowlingOne-liners, thoughts, sayings and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, backgrounds.I want to be all used up when I die. Tupac ShakurIt is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. I cannot pretend I am without fear. John MuirI would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. Maxime LagacéOur dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground. Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! Thomas Campbell To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures who people the tree of your life and give it new branches.

Marcus Aurelius It is as natural to die as it is to be born. UnknownIt’s better to burn out than to fade away. Carl SaganThe real question of life after death isn’t whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves. SenecaKeep the prospect of death, exile, and all such apparent tragedies before you every day – especially death – and you will never have an abject thought, or desire anything to excess. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. His best 5k is 17 minutes 41 seconds and his best marathon (42k) is in 3 hours 33 minutes 11 seconds (with 1800 meters of elevation gain).Other notable interests of Maxime are health (mental and physical), meditation, nutrition, bananas, human potential, education, learning, productivity and minimalism.We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website.

Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. SenecaWe are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. Chuck PalahniukThe people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created. SunakoDo not seek death. Kim HarrisonDeath – the last sleep? No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death! Yann Martel (Life of Pi)To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Representation)Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity.

Death is just another path, one that we all must take. We fear death because it’s the unknown and nobody can give us answers. Jodi PicoultIf you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? C.S. Terry PratchettHe who is not busy being born is busy dying. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. George EliotI feel monotony and death to be almost the same. Scott AlexanderI could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. Joan DidionYou can grieve all your life, but what’s the point? Hunter S. ThompsonGoodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Robert FulghumThe source of sorrows lies not in leaving life, but in leaving that which gives it meaning. Robert A. HeinleinFrom my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. BodhidharmaDo you see the gift that you had? John UpdikeThe funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective. 14th Dalai LamaTo be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking. My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Maxime LagacéThere is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. I feel monotony and death to be... Part 2. "Death must be so beautiful. No one has ever escaped it. Winston ChurchillLive as if you were to die tomorrow.

Anais NinDeath destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. Grief is forever. Thornton WilderIf life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. Only a change of worlds. That is true, it’s called Life. And so we will believe in our even a hundred times more worthy of their attention. Emily DickinsonIt is not length of life, but depth of life. TolkienDeath is but a door, time is but a window. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAll your sorrows have been wasted on you if you have not yet learned how to be wretched. Paulo CoelhoPeople die all the time. It to is one of the things required by nature. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. After all, it kills you. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.