death

"When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing."

"Why does death have to stop #love? It doesn’t stop people from voting in Chicago."

"Nothing is ever certain."

"How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?"

"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl."

"If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157)"

"Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?"Harry interrupted again."So he can sneak up on people,"said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking..."

"having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor."

"IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE."

"You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road."

"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."

"Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?""I don't know. I don't think so.""Then how do people recognize each other?""I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right?"

"Some people try to change the world one life at a time. Others try to change the world one death at a time. And I try to change the world one bucket full of dirt at a time."

"Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness."

"When I die, remember to remove my body from the cooler before you start making the hunch punch. But by all means, do get drunk on my memory."

"I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died."

"Ah, music,"he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"

"Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death."

"Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living."

"Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived."