27 Quotes About Death-and-sickness

Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.

I never thought before how strange the notion of a transplant list is. The only list I've ever really given thought to were grocery lists and to-do lists, lists of homework assignments and list of clothes I wanted to buy before school started. I never thought there was such a thing as a list of names, people waiting for new faces. People waiting for someone else to die.

Life on earth is temporary. May we pursue peace and live in harmony with one another.

Time is life.Time for birth, time for death.

Deep down a broken heart, all the sadness one can bear is misery.

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)

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

You see, cancer is simply nature's way of making you want to die.'Tatsu.

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)