death

"[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy."

"He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower."

"When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!"

"The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective."

"I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same."

"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."

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

"Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten."

"Now comes the mystery! (last words)"

"What am I dying for?"

"We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could have bought it, and you're asking me to marry you?""Perfect timing."

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

"After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die."

"I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!"And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going."

"Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard."

"For your birthday I got you some batteries. They’re dead, just like you’ll soon be."

"We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration"

"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"

"And starward drifts the stricken world,Lone in unalterable gloomDead, with a universe for tomb,Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)"

"Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat."