No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.

I wrote something for my local newspaper, but nobody read it because it got buried in the obituary section.

Erik, Erik! I saved your life! Remember? You were scentenced to death! But for me you would be dead by now.

They are trying to take you back from me now, and they will—but only for a brief, little while—

If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine.

And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come and go.

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

O my love, my wife!Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breathHath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life.

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.