life-and-death

They were of the past, and the past always mends itself, no matter how me interfere.

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you.

In the grueling light that passed for day...

I'm sucking on a cancer stick trying to think of something inspiring to say to help someone have a better life. That's "Irony".

If there is an afterlife, I want my soul intact. And then maybe I'll see you there."I smiled, somehow calm now that I was facing something inevitable. I was getting the good-bye I'd always wanted. - Nikki

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud .

She promised him she would love him until she was physically unable to anymore and then after when all she could do was hold his photograph.

All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru

I know life well enough to know you can't count on things staying around or standing still, no matter how much you want them to. You can't stop people from dying. You can't stop people from going away. You can't stop yourself from going away either.

They say the brain never ages it__ a shame it can't teach the body that trick.

Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"Allie considered this. "Meaning?""Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads.""Or tails," suggested

For the very first time Andrew realized that life, real life, had no connection with the way people spent their days, whose lips they kissed, what medals were pinned on them, or the shoes they mended. Life, real life went on soundlessly...ultimately there was no difference between Queen Victoria and the most wretched beggar in London: both were complex machines made up of bone, organ, and tissue, whose fuel was the breath of God.

Whatsoever is outside, know, is Within.

When you depart I'll blow you a Kiss take it to the Loved ones I already Miss.

Whilst I have no control over when or where that will be (death) ~ what I do have control over is the way I choose to live whilst my body is working well and my mind is capable of great things.

Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

When I contemplate life as well as death, I am discovering what really matters to me now.

The rich that are rejoicing having conquered life, should beware & rethink, for no man can conquer death.