Chuck Palahniuk

"We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will."

Chuck Palahniuk

e.e. cummings

"...life's not a paragraph
And death i think is no parenthesis"

e.e. cummings

Sue Monk Kidd

"Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life."

Sue Monk Kidd (The Secret Life of Bees)

Sylvia Plath

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."

Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

e.e. cummings

"Not being dead isn't being alive."

e.e. cummings

Anaïs Nin

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

Anaïs Nin

Anaïs Nin

"Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key!'"

Anaïs Nin

Robert Jordon

"You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long."

Robert Jordon

Benjamin Franklin

"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."

Benjamin Franklin

Thomas Campbell

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."

Thomas Campbell

Jodi Picoult

"If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?"

Jodi Picoult

Anaïs Nin

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."

Anaïs Nin

Terry Pratchett

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."
Terry Pratchett

Tim Burton

"Son, are you happy?
I don't mean to pry,
but do you dream of Heaven?
Have you ever wanted to die?"

Tim Burton

Anatole France

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."

Anatole France

Terry Pratchett

"It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life."

Terry Pratchett

Walt Whitman

"I depart as air—I shake my white locks at the runaway sun;
I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags.
I bequeath myself to the dirt, to grow from the grass I love;
If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles.
You will hardly know who I am, or what I mean;
But I shall be good health to you nevertheless,
And filter and fibre your blood.
Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged;
Missing me one place, search another;
I stop somewhere, waiting for you …"

Walt Whitman

Reginald Hill

"When we dead awake it will be to each of us as if but a second ago we had felt the pangs of dying, the explosion in the head, the drowning of the lungs, the fingers tightening around the throat. What a noise of screaming and wailing there will be at that moment! … Silence and amazement as we realise pain is no more … and then the onset of such a fear at the strangeness and uncertainty of this awakening that as we remember forever that unattainable past - sunlight… sea … the pleasures of mind and appetite, even the pains of dying - will seem more desirable to us than all the fabled joys of immortality. Even your lonely, frightened and unhappy existence will beckon you backward with siren song Dalziel. Even that Dalziel. Even that ..."

Reginald Hill