Death
Quotes - A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic
“A
single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
―
Joseph Stalin
“Dying
is overrated. Human sentimentality has twisted it into the ultimate act of
love. Biggest load of bullshit in the world. Dying for someone isn't the hard
thing. The man that dies escapes. Plain and simple. Game over. End of
pain...Try living for someone. Through it all-good, bad, thick, thin, joy,
suffering. That's the hard thing.”
―
Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever
“You're
Hell's Angels, then? What chapter are you from?'
'REVELATIONS.
CHAPTER SIX.”
―
Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies
of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“I
have outlasted all desire,
My
dreams and I have grown apart;
My
grief alone is left entire,
The
gleamings of an empty heart.
The
storms of ruthless dispensation
Have
struck my flowery garland numb,
I
live in lonely desolation
And
wonder when my end will come.
Thus
on a naked tree-limb, blasted
By
tardy winter's whistling chill,
A
single leaf which has outlasted
Its
season will be trembling still.”
―
Alexander Pushkin
“People
leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”
―
Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“No
one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...”
―
Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
“But
she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like
instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight
alone.”
―
Mitch Albom, For One More Day
“What
greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined
for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all
sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in
silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
―
George Eliot, Adam Bede
“We'd
stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would
make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.”
―
Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
“Six
hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will
die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day
being dead and in the ground.”
―
Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“There
are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is
when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in
the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”
―
David M. Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
“There
once was a girl who found herself dead.
She
peered over the ledge of heaven
and
saw that back on earth
her
sister missed her too much,
was
way too sad,
so
she crossed some paths
that
would not have crossed,
took
some moments in her hand
shook
them up
and
spilled them like dice
over
the living world.
It
worked.
The
boy with the guitar collided
with
her sister.
"There
you go, Len," she whispered. "The rest is up to you.”
―
Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
“Women
were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't
break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.”
―
Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath
“The
phoenix must burn to emerge.”
―
Janet Fitch, White Oleander
“Death
is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us
while we live.”
―
Norman Cousins
“Whatever
happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a
little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone
is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they
say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of
events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there --
that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not
miraculous.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times
“What
do you most value in your friends?
Their
continued existence.”
―
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
“You
can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually
break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with
time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you
feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where
my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him
as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.”
―
Laurell K. Hamilton
“No
More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67.
That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always
bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age.
Relax — This won't hurt”
―
Hunter S. Thompson
“Each
of us has his own rhythm of suffering.”
―
Roland Barthes
“Enjoy
life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
―
Hans Christian Andersen
“These
were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the
connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often
magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way
that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought
were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable
time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had
been my life.”
―
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
“Death
is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die
before you die" --- and find that there is no death.”
―
Eckhart Tolle
