Most of us live in a world that has ceased to exist. Mason Cooley
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. W. Somerset Maugham
In exile one is nothing but a ghost ... I ceased to exist when I went into exile. Reinaldo Arenas
Plastic surgery is a way for people to buy themselves a few years before they have to truly confront what ageing is, which of course is not that your looks are falling apart, but that you are falling apart and some-day you will have fallen apart and ceased to exist. Nora Ephron
All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even now, it still surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist. Nicole Krauss
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist. Hermann Ebbinghaus