Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels different when they’re gone.
I hadn't yet come to terms with the man my father was, or the lives he'd destroyed. But I accepted that he was part of me, and that he'd loved me once.
He'd been coiled like a snake for years and the tension had gone slack and when he was ready to spring the spring wasn't there, but it could be recoiled.
To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.
When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.
Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.
For once in his life, Norman has acted rather than gone to a meeting. And this is where it has landed him.
Anger gone as quick as it had come, now I just felt like an idiot. Not that this was the first time, and probably wouldn’t be the last. (Ray)
As the man left and became gone the fault wailed after him, heartbroken. Yelling back at him all the ways he and it belonged to one another.
The human civilization has gone extremely so far; that in return, we have lost the line between stupidity and spirituality.
Even the jerks earn some of our affection. We can be glad they're gone and yet still mourn the good parts.
The ocean drummed as loud as pulsating blood, eroding the sand, rushing the beach as if it had a point to prove. And like many things, it receded, was gone, and was replaced anew.
Everybody may have gone through the sufferings and pains of falling and failing in love earlier, may be many times.
Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.
When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.
People say love isn’t supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they’re gone.
A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree, its authority is gone.
came to [a small Midwest town] to speak . . . , and after he had gone the question of the divinity of Christ for months occupied the minds of the citizens.
The land will sink into the water, and then, the water will evaporate into the air, taking the sky with it. And all, but a tremor of what once was, will be gone. ~ Ichabod Everward, during the Fossil War.
When your action is gone, and all that’s left is motionlessness, I’ll be there, whistling.
Ten years have gone by since the ten year anniversary, and I still remember it like it happened a decade ago.
