“Cheryl Strayed reminds us, in her lyrical and courageous memoir Wild, of what it means to be fully alive, even in the face of catastrophe, physical and psychic hardship, and loss.” MeanFacesLossAliveMemoirCourageousHardshipCatastrophePsychicsLyrical Author:Mira Bartok
“Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.” YearsWellsHeartAbleTermMemoriesLossAliveTomorrowYears AgoDoctorsThanksWorking ItFifteenSurgeryShort TermAcidOpen HeartFifteen YearsDysfunctionMemory LossBypassYears Of LifeHeart SurgeryShort Term MemoryAcid Reflux Author:David Letterman
“[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.” UseOrderLossLove IsAnimalAlivePhotographConclusionTaxidermy Author:Annette Messager
“People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning. Human adaptability and resilience will still be alive, and so will that great need and resource of ours called love.” PeopleNeedsHumansStillsLife IsSufferingLossDealsAliveGoes OnResourcesResilienceMourningLife Is LikeAdaptability Author:Dale Jamieson
“Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.” PeopleLife IsLosesLossAliveTrickyStaying AliveReally Pretty Author:Anne Lamott
“It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that it purloined. Over the years, as the memory of Sophie Mol ... slowly faded, the Loss of Sophie Mol grew robust and alive. It was always there. Like a fruit in season. Every season. As permanent as a government job.” YearsSometimesGovernmentJobsMemoriesLossAliveGrewSeasonsFruitCuriousPermanentLife DeathSophieFadedRobustGovernment Jobs Book:The God of Small Things Source: The God of Small Things
“Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing.” ThinkingTryingYearsEndsDeathLossWatchesDarknessAliveEntityGreedyPinsMartian Chronicles Book:Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes: A Novel
“I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.” PeopleHumansFactsHuman BeingsLossAliveSpecialStakesIndifferentSanctityIrreplaceableSnuffSanctity Of Life Book:Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5 Source: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5
“Everything's got a purpose, really - you just have to look for it. Cats are good at keeping old dogs alive. Loss helps you reach for gain. Death helps you celebrate life. War helps you work for peace. A flood makes you glad you're still standing. And a tall boy can stop the wind so a candle of hope can burn bright.” LooksStillsWarHelpingPurposeLossBoysAliveDogWindGainsStandingCatGladCelebrateTallCandleFloodCelebrate LifeOld Dog Author:Joan Bauer