death

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

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

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?"

"When your family dies, that’s a bummer, but that’s life. When my family dies, it’s a tragedy and the world is unbalanced and biased."

"We see a hearse; we think sorrow. We see a grave; we think despair. We hear of a death; we think of a loss. Not so in heaven. When heaven sees a breathless body, it sees the vacated cocoon & the liberated butterfly."

"If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions."

"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away..."

"They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more."

"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."

"I want to write my own eulogy, and I want to write it in Latin. It seems only fitting to read a dead language at my funeral."

"Death alone gives meaning to life, and you will never fully live until you know you must die. And make your peace with that knowledge."

"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."

"Love is a circular emotion that surrounds you, like a hug. Or a noose."

"They say even death can't cure an idiot.-Ririn"

"No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping."

"A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down."

"Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable."

"I make love like I make coffins—with my bare hands, alone in my garage. On sale through Thursday—Buy One Funeral, Get A Second One Free!"

"God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live."

"You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is."