“When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.”

Raised by Wolves, season 1, episode 4. Character Campion.

Source: The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective

"A Sorta Fairytale".
Songs

Source: In Search of Small Gods

Vol. XI, p. 242
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works
Context: When death comes, it does not ask your permission; it comes and takes you; it destroys you on the spot. In the same way, can you totally drop hate, envy, pride of possession, attachment to beliefs, to opinions, to ideas, to a particular way of thinking? Can you drop all that in an instant? There is no “how to drop it”, because that is only another form of continuity. To drop opinion, belief, attachment, greed, or envy is to die — to die every day, every moment. If there is the coming to an end of all ambition from moment to moment, then you will know the extraordinary state of being nothing, of coming to the abyss of an eternal movement, as it were, and dropping over the edge — which is death. I want to know all about death, because death may be reality; it may be what we call God — that most extraordinary something that lives and moves and yet has no beginning and no end.

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Variant: every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
Source: The Passion