All Quotes By Tag: Death

“I want you here. I don’t care if it’s a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.”

“When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die.”

“Colder by the hour, more dead with every breath.”

“How do you get all those coins?” asked Mort.IN PAIRS.”

“Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.”

“He was Death, and he’d ridden in on a pale horse…”

“The ninety degree shift does not cancel the effects of old age upon the physical body, but it does enable warriors to retain control of all their faculties, their knowledge, sobriety, and power, right up to and even beyond the moment of physical death. This is every warrior’s reward for having been willing to fight impeccably right up until the final breath.”

“No matter how many times I had been challenged with having to explain the worst aspects of life, it never got easier.”

“… we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.”

“She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.”

“I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.”

“Who is there today who still cares about a well-finished death? No one. Even the rich, who could after all afford this luxury, are beginning to grow lazy and indifferent; the desire to have a death of one’s own is becoming more and more rare. In a short time it will be as rare as a life of one’s own.”

“Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man”

“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence. A kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life. You feel it already in the vegetable kingdom: from the great catalpa to the humblest herb, how many plants die and how many are killed; but, from the moment you enter the animal kingdom, this law is suddenly in the most dreadful evidence. A Power, a violence, at once hidden and palpable. . . has in each species appointed a certain number of animals to devour the others. . . And who [in this general carnage] exterminates him who will exterminate all others? Himself. It is man who is charged with the slaughter of man. . . The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but a vast altar upon which all that is living must be sacrificed without end, without measure, without pause, until the consummation of things, until evil is extinct, until the death of death.”

“Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.”