“Here's the thing," he said. "People see me as a bridge. I'm not as alive as I used to be, but I'm not yet dead. I'm sort of...in-between”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“The Sunlight on the Garden
The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
We cannot cage the minute
Within its nets of gold,
When all is told
We cannot beg for pardon.
Our freedom as free lances
Advances towards its end;
The earth compels, upon it
Sonnets and birds descend;
And soon, my friend,
We shall have no time for dances.
The sky was good for flying
Defying the church bells
And every evil iron
Siren and what it tells:
The earth compels,
We are dying, Egypt, dying
And not expecting pardon,
Hardened in heart anew,
But glad to have sat under
Thunder and rain with you,
And grateful too
For sunlight on the garden.”
Source: Collected Poems 1925-1948
“live to the fullest or die;
and die you will anyway, so start living!”
“He's lost his colour very far from here,
Poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry”
Source: The War Poems
“That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it...”
Source: A Scanner Darkly
“i love walking in the rain because no one knows im dying”
“Life begins like a dream, becomes a little real, and ends like a dream.”
Source: The Oneironaut’s Diary
“After some cogitation, it is difficult not to agree with Herman Bondi (1919 - 2005), who in his book 'Relativity and Common Sense' says:
... The surprising thing, surely, is that molecules in a gas behave so much as billiard balls, not that electrons behave so little like billiard balls.”
Source: E=mc^2: The Most Famous Equation in History... and its Folklore
“For all that was happening to him, his voice was strong and inviting, and his mind was vibrating with a million thoughts. He was intent on proving that the word 'dying' was not synonymous with 'useless'.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Morrie closed his eyes. "I know, Mitch. You mustn't be afraid of my dying. I've had a good life, and we all know it's going to happen. I maybe have four or five months.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson