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I think some love you can stand to let go of because it's ultimately for the best, but other types you have to stick with until the day you die even when it's hard.

—Nick Burd in The Vast Fields of Ordinary

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Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

—Emily Dickinson

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

—Vladimir Nabokov

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We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

—Bill Hicks

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A funeral reminds you to be alive, doesn't it? It slaps you across the face and points out that there's still warm blood doing a jig in your veins.

—Lydia Kang in A Beautiful Poison

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Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

—David Lloyd George

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Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

—Meghan O'Rourke in The Long Goodbye

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Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

—Mitch Albom in The Five People You Meet in Heaven

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There was just something about her dying that I had understood but not really understood, if you know what I mean. I mean, you can know someone is dying on an intellectual level, but emotionally it hasn't really hit you.

—Jesse Andrews in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

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What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?

—Elin Hilderbrand in Summerland

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One of the hardest things to accept when someone you love dies is that life goes on.

—Linda Castillo in Long Lost

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Perhaps it is the greater grief to be left on earth when another is gone.

—Madeline Miller in The Song of Achilles

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Unless you've touched a corpse before, you can't comprehend the visceral wrongness of inert flesh wrapped around an inanimate object that wears your mother's face. You feel sick with guilt and regret and sadness about inconsequential anecdote. You can't remember anything thoughtful or sweet or tender that you ever did even though logically you know you must have. All you can recall is how often you were small and petty and false. She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and now she's gone.

—Elan Mastai in All Our Wrong Todays

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

—Oscar Wilde

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