death

"If you love someone, you're not supposed to want them to come back. Better a peaceful sleep in the earth than the life of a zombie--not really dead but not really alive, either."

"I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear you. I hear all of you. We were here. Our lives matter."

"What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness."

"You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls.""It's not a fashion accessory."

"And after a while...I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die. My powers aren't a prescription you can get filled as needed."

"One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame."

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

"Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust."

"Wait.” Stefan’s voice was hard suddenly. Bonnie and Elena turned back and froze, embracing each other, trembling. “What is your—your father—going to do to you when he finds out that you allowed this?”"He will not kill me,” Sage said brusquely, the wild tone back in his voice. “He may even find it as amusant as I do, and we will be sharing a belly laugh tomorrow."

"Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, "Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one."(Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: "I love you, Janet.") [They were. -Janet.]"

"How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?"

"Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them."

"The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die."

"I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS."

"I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been."

"...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath."

"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

"You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me, and still come with me, and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature."

"My dreams died nine months before I was born"

"I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die."