“Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody else’s. It shocks them, terrifies them. It’s like a great surprise. Hell, it should never be. I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: Hello, baby, how you doing? when you coming for me? I’ll be ready.” Charles Bukowski
Quote of the Day:
“It was autumn, the springtime of death. Rain spattered the rotting leaves, and a wild wind wailed. Death was singing in the shower. Death was happy to be alive.” Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
Quote of the Day:
“I hope to arrive at my death,
late, in love,
and a little drunk.”
Atticus
Proverb of the Day:
“Death is the middle of a long life.” Irish proverb
Quote of the Day:
“After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.” Arthur Schopenhauer
Thought for the Day:
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” Charles Bukowski
Quote of the Day:
“I hope to arrive at my death, late, in love, and a little drunk.” Atticus
Quote of the Day:
“Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.” Kafka
Quote of the Day:
The dead don’t go anywhere. They’re all here. Each man is a cemetery. An actual cemetery, in which lie all our grandmothers and grandfathers, the father and mother, the wife, the child. Everyone is here all the time.” Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel Prize-winning author
Quote of the Day:
“You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.”
Evan Esar
Thought for the Day:
“Death is only one way of dying; living partially, living fearfully, is our more common, daily collusion with death.” James Hollis
Quote of the Day:
“Death is not destruction. It is the continuation of changes in the constantly changing physical world.”
I Ching: A New Interpretation for Modern Times by Sam Reifler
Quote of the Day:
“Before death takes what has been given to you, give away everything you can give.” Rumi
Quote of the Day:
“Grief needs an outlet. Creativity offers one.” Hope Edelman
Prose of the Day:
“Your lover wants to love you in return
but will begin to understand
your kind of love requires
a space for constant grieving.”
Mahogany L. Browne, from: I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love
Quote of the Day:
“Death is perfectly safe.” Ram Dass
Winter Season
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.” Jamie Anderson
Quote of the Day:
“In the end, everyone is aware of this: nobody keeps any of what he has, and life is only a borrowing of bones.”
Pablo Neruda
Quote of the Day:
“The changes wrought by death are in themselves so sharp and final, and so terrible and melancholy in their consequences, that the thing stands alone in man’s experience, and has no parallel upon earth.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Quote of the Day:
“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.” Katherine Hepburn