Death

"If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?"

"I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars."

"Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched..."

"The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now."

"The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is."

"Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the... cosmos... gives a damn one way or the other about the especial wants and ultimate welfare of mosquitoes, rats, lice, dogs, men, horses, pterodactyls, trees, fungi, dodos, or other forms of biological energy."

"I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all."

"Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying."

"People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies."

"I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter."

"Live free or die."

"Crap. It's all crap. Living is crap. Life has no meaning. None. Nowhere to be found. Crap. Why doesn't anybody realize this?"

"It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home -- only the millions of last moments . . . nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments."

"Everybody know death is inevitably coming, but it never fails to catch everybody by surprise everytime one is going"

"The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one."

"I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been."

"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."

"If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine."

"The end is in the beginning and yet you go on."

"These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life."