A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

Well I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death.

Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

I still loved Granny. It flowed out of my chest. With Granny gone, where would my love go?

We can't be sad for her," she murmured. "Only for ourselves at having to say good-bye.

After I am dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

trust your heart, if the seas catch fire, and live by love though the stars walk backward.

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life.

Oh dire, dreadful death, you drag your heels.Why dawdle and draw back? You drown my heart.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it.