Death Archive

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. – Mark Twain

“Sometimes it feels like everyone’s moved on, but they all miss you in their own way. Mom, there’s not a day that goes by when I don’t think about you. The good news is I know now I’m not crazy. I was saved by a beast. He didn’t get there in time to save you, [...]

“See, but… that’s bullshit. That’s what everyone has been telling me since the beginning. ‘Oh, you’re gonna be okay,’ and ‘Oh, everything’s fine,’ and like, it’s not… It makes it worse… that no one will just come out and say it. Like, ‘hey man, you’re gonna die.’” – 50/50

"I wish I could see some people just one more time you know just to let them know that they've made a difference in my life and I appreciate them; to let them know that a part of them will always be with me; to tell them that I'll never forget them."

"And the world just keeps on going. it has no way of knowing that you're gone." - Jessica Andrews, "never be forgotten"

"You oughta see the way these people look at me when they see me 'round here talking to this stone." - LeAnn Rimes, "probably wouldn't be that way"

"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance." - Marcel Proust

"When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose them all at once; you lose them in pieces over a long time - the way the mail stops coming - and their scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in their closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of them that are gone. Just when the day comes, when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feelings that they're gone forever, there comes another day, and another specifically missing part."

"We attach ourselves so strongly to people that when they're gone, a part of us is gone too."

"Sometimes I see you standing there. Sometimes I feel an angel's touch. Sometimes I feel that I'm so lucky to have had the chance to love this much." - LeAnn Rimes, "probably wouldn't be that way"