Life and death - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death. — Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex

and when the hour is come that has been set for each of us before ever we can walk or talk, then what need of mourning? — Pearl S. Buck The Mother

At the end of life, parent and kinsman are as a blind man set to look after a burning lamp. — Dorothy Dunnett Checkmate

In the grueling light that passed for day...

There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.

in that cold autistic dark.

Perhaps that is why we love life so much, Anjin-san. You see, we have to. Death is part of our air and see and earth.

Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld?...

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... — Philip K. Dick A Scanner Darkly

If you learn how to die, you will learn how to live. — Mitch Albom Tuesdays with...

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