“All of us have to get out of life somehow one day — that's certain — but few of us have the chance of making such a triumphant exit.”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“When people used to learn about sex at fifteen and die at thirty-five, they obviously were going to have fewer problems than people today who learn about sex at eight or so, I guess, and live to be eighty. That’s a long time to play around with the same concept. The same boring concept.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“Whenever I see a dead body, death seems to me a departure. The corpse looks to me like a suit that was left behind. Someone went away and didn’t need to take the one and only outfit he’d worn.”— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com
“Flowers exemplify the fragile balance between beauty and pleasure on the one hand and decay on the other: both a symbol and instance of beauty, they are always already dying at the peak of their bloom.”— Wayne M. Martin, amazon.com