All Quotes By Tag: Death-and-dying
“There was no hope in death, only an end.”
“… [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.”
“Sadly enough, the most painful goodbyes are the ones that are left unsaid and never explained.”
“Time doesn’t heal all wounds. We both know that’s bullshit; it comes from people who have nothing comforting or original to say.”
“If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles.”
“Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest.”
“Heald envied and admired a dog’s existence, and it only weighed on him more when he considered the rare and undeniably questionable gift of knowing that he would die— that he was mortal. A dog could only embrace love absolutely, without hesitation, and could devote itself to it with complete and unabashed abandon, for the world was forever.”
“Life is the only thing which can never be replaced when lost.”
“MOMWholeheartedly,She loved me-And inspired me-With transcending devotion.It was a blessing-To have been her son,To have been loved-Without conditions.Her words of wisdom-Opened my eyes-To the world-And to myself.By seeing the best in me, She empowered me.By believing in me, She transformed me.She grew old-And floated away,But her love remains standing-Eternally by my side.”
“That feeling stayed with me for months. In fact, I had grown so accustomed to that floating feeling that I started to panic at the prospect of losing it. So I began to ask friends, theologians, historians, pastors I knew, nuns I liked, *What am I going to do when it’s gone?* And they knew exactly what I meant because they had either felt it themselves or read about it in great works of Christian theology. St. Augustine called it “the sweetness.” Thomas Aquinas called it something mystical like “the prophetic light.” But all said yes, it will go. The feelings will go. The sense of God’s presence will go. There will be no lasting proof that God exists. There will be no formula for how to get it back.But they offered me this small bit of certainty, and I clung to it. When the feelings recede like the tides, they said, they will leave an imprint. I would somehow be marked by the presence of an unbidden God.”
“It’s harder to pick and choose when you’re dead. It’s like a photograph, you know. It doesn’t matter as much.”
“If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.”
“Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.”
“My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.”
“We feel most alive when we are closest to death.”