Death
Quotes - It is nothing to Die
“there
is a place in the heart that
will
never be filled
a
space
and
even during the
best
moments
and
the
greatest times
times
we
will know it
we
will know it
more
than
ever
there
is a place in the heart that
will
never be filled
and
we
will wait
and
wait
in
that space.”
―
Charles Bukowski
“It
is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
―
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“When
someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at
once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming,
and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet
and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just
when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you
with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another
specifically missing part.”
―
John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Death
is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“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.”
―
Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“Stop
fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.
He
was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean
over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.
“Let
go of me!” I yelled back.
But
he was too strong and managed to haul most of me over the rail, enough so that
I wasn’t in total danger of falling again.
See,
here’s the thing. In that moment before I let go, I really had been contemplating
my death. I’d come to terms with it and accepted it. I also, however, had known
Dimitri might do something exactly like this. He was just that fast and that
good. That was why I was holding my stake in the hand that was dangling free.
I
looked him in the eye. "I will always love you."
Then
I plunged the stake into his chest.
It
wasn’t as precise a blow as I would have liked, not with the skilled way he was
dodging. I struggled to get the stake in deep enough to his heart, unsure if I
could do it from this angle. Then, his struggles stopped. His eyes stared at
me, stunned, and his lips parted, almost into a smile, albeit a grisly and
pained one.
"That’s
what I was supposed to say. . .” he gasped out.
Those
were his last words.”
―
Richelle Mead, Blood Promise
“Sleep,
those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
―
Edgar Allan Poe
“Each
night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am
reborn.”
―
Mahatma Gandhi
“Death
is Peaceful, Life is Harder”
―
Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“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.”
―
John Green, Looking for Alaska
“I
have done it," she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the
tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And
beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
"Go,"
she says. "He waits for you."
In
the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their
hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out
of the sun.”
―
Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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Terry
Pratchett
“And
what would humans be without love?"
RARE,
said Death.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
“Does
it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could
stop it.
"Dying?
Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Love
is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
―
Mitch Albom
“Death
is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
―
Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories
“The
meaning of life is that it stops.”
―
Franz Kafka
“Life
is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
―
Isaac Asimov
“When
you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has
sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except
sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers
on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're
dead? Nobody.”
―
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“His
soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The
ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I
want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light
because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their
way to other places.”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
