death

"Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever."

"the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life."

"You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road."

"I’m willing to die for the woman I love. I just want to take 75 years to do it."

"Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest."

"The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness."

"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."

"Silence is so freaking loud"

"There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding."

"We fear death, we shudder at life's instability, we grieve to see the flowers wilt again and again, and the leaves fall, and in our hearts we know that we, too, are transitory and will soon disappear. When artists create pictures and thinkers search for laws and formulate thoughts, it is in order to salvage something from the great dance of death, to make something last longer than we do."

"Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept."

"Death is our constant companion, and it is death that gives each person's life its true meaning."

"If anyone stops us, as long as we mumble something pretentious about the glory of death, we should be fine."

"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."

"Death isn't the end, it's the beginning."

"And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too."

"Zalos: 'The world is full of massive things in motion. Little creatures get hurt."

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

"Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains."

"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."