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“I have met people that said when their friend was dying, they made them promise that their funeral would be a party without people sitting in silence and in sadness. They want to celebrate their life and the life they lived and I try to adhere to that more.”

People Want Trying Made Said Would Be Party Silence Sadness Dying Promise Mets Sitting Celebrate Funeral Sitting In Silence

Author:Andrew W.K.

“People don't die from suicide, they die from sadness.”

People Dies Sadness Dying Suicide

Author:Timothy Long

“Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.”

Thinking Home Sadness Dying Be Good Miles Surroundings Unfamiliar Miles Away Away From Home

Author:Ian Mcewan

“From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.”

“People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.”

People Stills Political Sadness Dying Waste Response Rate Hiv Infection

Author:Elton John

“They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.”

Source: Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.”

Littles Seems Death Inspiring Sadness Dying Sad Sad Life Sadness Of Life Sadness And Love Sadness And Sorrow

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.”

Feels Voice Sadness Dying Autumn Paradox Exquisite Ripe Meaning Something

Book:The solace of open spaces

Source: The solace of open spaces

“Goodbye, my friend, goodbye My love, you are in my heart. It was preordained we should part And be reunited by and by. Goodbye: no handshake to endure. Let's have no sadness - furrowed brow. There's nothing new in dying now Though living is no newer.”

“All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.”

Thinking Life Trying Has Beens Moments Remember Hope Realizing Born Hours Sadness Dying Perspective All Things Hopeful

Author:Og Mandino

“I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.”

Needs Years Wells Seems Mystery Sadness Dying Quiet Strikes Autumn Melancholy

Author:Kyffin Williams