Jonathan Tropper Quotes

In every parting there is an image of death.

Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes; I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again

You never know the last time you’ll see a place. A person.

But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised. You were lucky, more than blessed, if you got a good-bye at all.

Death's in the good-bye.

Stations and airports are rehearsals for separations by death.

I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.

Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

She was saying goodbye and she didn't even know it.

All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

It was the first time she had visited me here in upstate New York. It was the last time I saw her.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

The thing about death is that it's honest.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

There is nothing glamorous about death.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

Every so often, we all gaze into the abyss. It's a depressing fact of life that eventually the clock expires; eventually the sand in the hourglass runs out. It's the leaving behind of everything that matters to us that hurts the most.

To me, death is dark, pain, grief.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Death always seems to be around me.

Death is a weird thing.