death

"There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another."

"My ashtray is full, the carton of cigarettes is empty, and I just cremated grandpa. But I never inhaled—or told him I loved him."

"When the dead do walk seek water's run,for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river's best or broadest laketo ward the dead and have and make.If water fails thee, fire's thy friend, if neither guards it will be thy end."

"I have given my word that only death will take me from you."

"The man who kills a man kills a man.The man who kills himself kills all men.As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world."

"It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."

"The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream."

"O weep for Adonis - He is dead.""Peace. He is not dead he doth not sleep - he hath wakened from the dream of life"

"It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners."

"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

"for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right."

"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."

"I love you Anna Covey,' he said, his voice barely audible. And slowly, clumsily, he leant forward, and his lips found hers, and Anna felt him kiss her awkwardly, she knew that she wasn't a Surplus any more. And nor was Peter."

"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."

"So since I'm still here livin',I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born."

"How could you go about choosing something that would hold the half of your heart you had to bury?"

"If you were half as funny as you think you are, you'd be twice as funny as you really are."

"Death is harder on those who are left behind."

"Tell me what it is like to die,"I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something similar every day,"he said softly. "It is as familiar to you as bread and butter.""Yes,"I said. "It is like every night when I fall asleep.""No. It is like every morning when you wake up."