"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"[HAMILTON]I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory"
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
"Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change"
- Isabel Allende
"People are fragile. They die of mistakes, of overdoses, of sickness. But mostly they die of Death."
- Holly Black
"He always thought that Touie's long illness would somehow prepare him for her death. He always imagined that grief anf guilt, if they followed, would be more clear-edged, more defined, more finite. In..."
- Julian Barnes
"I am not ready to die,But I am learning to trust deathAs I have trusted life.I am movingToward a new freedom"
- May Sarton
"What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies to become a piece of firewood, and the firewood dies to become ash. You give different..."
- Swami Satchidananda
"We are all dying one by one. We all smell of mortality, and we can't wash it off."
- Siri Hustvedt
"Heaven is a place where all the dogs you've ever loved come to greet you."
- Oliver Gaspirtz
"Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture)."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana