death

"Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them."

"Ah, music,"he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!"

"People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies."

"The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom."

"That is death - shifting from "is"to "was."

"Together kabobs make the world better than all the Bobs combined. Well, at least ever since Bob Ross moved on to the land of the happy trees."

"I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life."

"The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing?"

"I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call."

"When she fucked up all those years ago, just a little girl terrified into paralysis, she fell onto the enigma of herself."

"Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death."

"In my kind of falling, there’s no landing. There’s only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you’re falling, it’s the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends."

"The thing about dead people... The thing is you sound like a bastard if you don't romanticize them, but the truth is... complicated, I guess."

"I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation."

"A stick won’t stick to a wall, so why is it called a stick? Likewise, why aren’t love and ghost the same word? Both are dead and invisible."

"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."

"If you’re going to hang around and watch me write, you might as well have a noose around your neck. Would you mind if I kicked the chair out from under your feet? You’re standing on my only place to sit."

"A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart,"I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living."

"Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone"

"She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs."