death

"The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought"

"Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal."

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

"O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!"

"Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.)"

"When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate."

"***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die."

"The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes."

"They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."

"Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it."

"Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it."

"He said you were the only one who was bitter about S.'s suicide and the only one who really forgave him for it. The rest of us, he said, were outwardly unbitter and inwardly unforgiving."

"The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter"

"[O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine."

"Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die."

"The death of dogma is the birth of morality."

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

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

"If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship."

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