death

"I'm going to die whatever you do, but I'm not afraid."

"She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive."

"Death has this much to be said for it:You don't have to get out of bed for it.Wherever you happen to beThey bring it to you—free."

"When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?"He replied: "Because no one admired me."

"Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby."

"Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[Death is] to lose the earth you know for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth."

"I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it."

"On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world."

"Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around."

"It's all right, Tessa, you can go. We love you. You can go now.''Why are you saying that?''She might need permission to die, Cal.''I don't want her to. She doesn't have my permission."

"Our life is made by the death of others."

"Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever."

"Every time I go to sleep, I know I may never wake up. How could anyone expect to? You drop your tiny, helpless mind into a bottomless well, crossing your fingers and hoping when you pull it out on its flimsy fishing wire it hasn't been gnawed to bones by nameless beasts below."

"If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?"

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."

"What if she's all I give you in this life of ours, my love?"she asked quietly. "Then I'll shout at the goddess in fury,"he said fiercely. "I'll beg to know why I've been given so much when other men have so little."

"Then Thalia Grace became their leader and started recruiting even more young women to their cause, which grated on Nico – as if Bianca’s death could be forgotten. As if she could be replaced."

"Yes, alive,” said Fudge. “That is — I don’t know — is a man alive if he can’t be killed? I don’t really understand it, and Dumbledore won’t explain properly — but anyway, he’s certainly got a body and is walking and talking and killing, so I suppose, for the purposes of our discussion, yes, he’s alive."

"How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?"

"We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home."