When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you read more

When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Wings of angels, tears of saints
won't bring you back to me
(about her son's suicide)
(He will come back read more

Wings of angels, tears of saints
won't bring you back to me
(about her son's suicide)
(He will come back to her.. the soul is
deathless).

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs read more

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.

It is good to die before one has done anything deserving death.

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect read more

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with read more

Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it read more

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Life without a friend is death without a witness.