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“If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.”

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“He'd seen that the young ones died quickly. He'd heard the staff talk about it. When they were ready they let go. Not like adults. Adults took a long time. It was as if adults had built such a thick, petrified husk around them that this alone gave them the strength, the form to hold on. And by the transient revival that so often came to the dying, adults seemed to find a last little puff of life before the end. They had a term for it here at the hospital -- hui guang fan zhao, the reflected rays of the setting sun. Children were lacking in this. They went quickly. He watched as the DOWN light came on and the elevator door slid open. He had a fear that his life now was just an interlude of hui guang fan zhao, a brief moment before it all came back, worse. And for so long now he had been in this state by himself. He stared up at the digital floor numbers flashing, descending.”

Fear Dying

Book:A Cup of Light

Source: A Cup of Light

“All things die,' she told him. Such a truism, it was the trite utterance of any street-corner philosopher, but coming from Inaspe Raimm it sounded different. 'All things reach the end of their journey, be they trees, insects, people or even principalities. All things die so that others may take their place. To die is no tragedy. The tragedy is dying with a purpose unfulfilled.”

Source: Salute the Dark

“I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die, right there, all that time ago, and this is a ghost who has been telling you stories and drinking your wine. You don't understand. Never mind.”

Stories Death Dying Wine Ghosts Telling Stories Lal Lal After Dark Lal Alone Lalkhamsin Khamsolal Never Mind Sailor Lal Swordcane Lal

Book:The Innkeeper's Song

Source: The Innkeeper's Song

“All the things people carry in their hearts, love, hatred, fears, and they had to be shared with a friend or a loved one, because when we do not share them, sometime, all the things love, anger, hatred, fears ends up coming out of us mixed-up. We just become a shell with nothing inwards us, an empty soul with nothing in it, that is as bad as dying.”

Love Soul Fear Friendship Dying Hatred Hearts

Book:Friendship, Love & Sacrifice

Source: Friendship, Love & Sacrifice

“I think that the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all the way down the air; and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks.”

Prayer Dying Thankfulness

Book:The Abundance

Source: The Abundance

“There's not a day that goes by, without me thinking of you, dying, in someone else's arms.”

Past Time Lost Memories Gone Taken Dying Arms Alone Regrets Missing Someone Day And Night Wishing Ex In The End Take Back Thinking Thoughts

Author:Anthony Liccione

“He wanted to show her how to live, even after he was gone.”

Love Life Dying Life Goes On How To Live

Book:Homecoming

Source: Homecoming

“Let us also acknowledge that the hearts which suffer the most from our wars are those of mothers. Their vital voices have been left out of the political equation for too long. An Iraqi or American mother cries the same as an Israeli or Afghan mother. The eyes of a mother who has suffered the loss of a child can destroy the soul of anyone who gazes upon them. More souls become casualties of war than physical bodies. War is a soul-shattering experience for the innocent.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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