"These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave."

Mortality, Grave, Death, Reflection, Thought

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"These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave."

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"Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

Mortality, Death, Dream, Violence, Memory

"What will be left of all the fearing and wanting associated with your problematic life situation that every day takes up most of your attention? A dash, one or two inches long, between the date of birth and date of death on your gravestone."

Eckhart Tolle, German Author

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"Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn't talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

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"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

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"I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be."

Robin Gibb, English Musician

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"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?"

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me. Morrie would walk that final bridge between life and death, and narrate the trip."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten."

Samuel Beckett, Irish Playwright

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"Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death."

William S. Burroughs, American Writer

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"Seventeen moons, seventeen years,Eyes where Dark or Light appears,Gold for yes and green for no, Seventeen the last to know."

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"Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan."

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"She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking and the looming shadow of the last word, the one we refused to say."

Space

"In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing."

Emotions

"Hey, Ethan.'Yeah?'Remember the Twinkie on the bus? The one I gave you in second grade, the day we met?'The one you found on the floor and gave me without telling me? Nice.'He grinned and shot the ball. 'It never really fell on the floor. I made that part up."

Connection

"One thing I'd realized in the last year was that there were some things no one could give you permission to do. All the same, it didn't mean you couldn't or shouldn't do them- particularly when it came to the big things, like saving the world, or journeying to a supernatural seam between realities, or bringing your boyfriend back from the dead."

Heroism

"Let her have today.Leave tomorrow to the angels."

Hope

"Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?"

Learning

"Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian.'Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens."

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