death

"The only certainty life contains is death."

"Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else."

"Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down."

"Dying is an art.Like everything else,I do it exceptionally well.I do it so it feels like hell.I do it so it feels real.I guess you could say I have a call."

"True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all was the sense of hearing acute."

"Live or die, but don't poison everything."

"But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone."

"We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith."

"Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers,Not forever lasts the springNor ever blossom the flowers.Not forever reigneth joy,Sets the sun on days of bliss,Friendships not forever last,They know not life, who know not this."

"If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive."

"Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it."

"Death is just the last scene of the last act."

"Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was."

"Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you."

"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die,To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!"

"This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike."

"I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view."

"How fortunate we were who still had hope I did not then realise; I could not know how soon the time would come when we should have no more hope, and yet be unable to die"

"Death is the Graduation of the Soul"

"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."