I kept thinking how they were all names of dead people, and how names are basically the only thing dead people keep.

You always have something left to lose. Until, of course, you die.

What’s the point of keeping in touch with the girl you’re crazy about, when you’re dying?

It was nice to kill time. But the time buries us before… (On a beau tuer le temps, – Il nous enterre avant)

We don’t know why God chose to deliver Peter from death and James through death. The text doesn’t say.

Love is a wound,” the assassin said. ” Neither life nor death.

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If...

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn’t dead.

How I adore you, Marya. How well I chose. Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don’t leave me.

Seventy years of life is nothing in front of a single day of death

People’re always buried facing west, so at the end of time when the Last Trumpet blows, all the dead people’ll claw their way up and walk due west to the throne of Jesus to be...

Conner hadn’t liked leaving the gravesite with his father still not buried. But he’d learned from his grandmother’s funeral that you have to go. It’s expected. Nobody hangs around the cemetary. Grief—a little or a...

If only you and I (or you or I) doesn’t go and die before we have a chance to meet! And yet, if we did no doubt there would be some good and loving reason...

Die in a good way, obviously.

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away.

Now there is one thing I can tell you: you will enjoy certain pleasures you would not fathom now. When you still had your mother you often thought of the days when you would have...

It never occurred to them that God may have provided the world with a vast array of very brainy medical types for the very reason of solving problems such as theirs. However, there is one...

Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.

Though there had been moments of beauty in it Mariam knew that life for most part had been unkind to her.But as she walked the final twenty paces,she could not help but wish for more...

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had...

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

Don’t you love that about the novel? The capaciousness?” he said.

We never care for anyone for their own sake. We train them for the system. No one matters for their own sake. No one acts for their own sake. The system will always be bigger...

The only cure for a real hangover is death.

Circumstances cannot change how you feel. When you truly love someone – on a level that goes deeper than your mind, deeper than your memories, all the way to the very thing that makes you...

Long after you have reached the end of your natural span, part of you will dwell within me . . . as I shall be in you to the last of your days and even...

But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.

Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a...

Sometimes dead is better

But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life...

Acha alama katika dunia baada ya kuondoka.

Your edict, King, was strong,But all your strength is weakness itself againstThe immortal unrecorded laws of God.They are not merely now: they were, and shall be,Operative for ever, beyond man utterly.I knew I must die,...

Here’s the other thing I think about. It makes little sense to try to control what happens to your remains when you are no longer around to reap the joys or benefits of that control....

It’s your life, not your death, that defines you.

Welcome to vampire-ville.” He chuckled.

Life is a bitter sweet journey my friend, a bitter sweet journey.

Julie would have died there.

Eternal love doesn’t mean till you die, its what you call eternity, it could be a few days, heck a few hours, but its worth every second

I knew this for a fact. Little by little, the ache to see him, to hear him would disappear. Little by little I’d forget how his arms felt, how his fingers felt, how his lips...

There’s nowhere else to escape to … Except in a wooden box, that is.

I don’t know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. You can bet I’m going to make this day count! Will you?

This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.

The actuality of us being cognizant and accepting of the fact we are but a speck of sand in a universe sized desert, whose existence is irrelevant to any facet of universal function is a...

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

A girl is just like a movie, you want to know what happends next, and how it will end…

There is an old saying that goes ‘Start by plucking a hair, end by killing a man’. It is also said, ‘Two hands must meet to make a sound’. The atrocities that happened here weren’t...