13,737 Quotes About Death

But who knows why we really do anything? Who knows why we do what we do when we do it? Why your local barista greeted you with a curt 'hi' instead of her usual, mellifluous-sounding 'hello' has a trillion justifications. So, why someone decides to commit suicide might take a while to explain, and a lifetime to begin comprehending...

...the dead are objects that have broken, a television, the radio, the mixer, and the best thing is to remember them as they were when they were working, because the only acceptable tomb is memory.

Non si guarisce dalla morte. Ci si accontenta di addomesticarla. E' un animale selvatico, le sue zanne sono affilate. Cerco soltanto di costruire una gabbia dove rinchiuderla. Lei è quì al mio fianco, aspetta con la bava alla bocca di divorarmi.

Twas my one glory -Let it be RememberedI was owned of Thee.

That either (a) she uses children to hide her real adult emotions, or (b) she is still a child herself.

Some thinks will never be okay.

The country of the souls is underneath us, toward the sunset; the trail leads through a dim twilight. Tracks of the people who last went over it and of their dogs are visible.

Reminiscences of old, dried-over pains were no consolation in the face of this. They had the effect of cold beads of water on a hot iron - they danced and fizzled up while the room stank from their steam.

Destiny, if I could sit across the porch from God, I'd thank Him for Lending me you.....