All Quotes By Tag: Death

“Finnick and I sit for a long time in silence, watching the knots bloom and vanish, before I can ask, ‘How do you bear it?’Finnick looks at me in disbelief. ‘I don’t, Katniss! Obviously, I don’t. I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there’s no relief in waking.’Something in my expression stops him.’Better not give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself together as it does to fall apart.’Well, he must know. I take a deep breath, forcing myself back into one piece.”

“What can I say? I prefer to die well informed.”

“How I wish I was like the water,Flowing so freely with every dropLet my every emotion wonder,No need to start, nor even stopHow I wish I was like the fire,Burning with every flame upLeaving a trace of hot desireAs a Phoenix raises its’ wings upHow I wish I was like the earth,Raising each flower from the groundSeeing the beauty of death and birthAnd then returning to the groundHow I wish I was like the wind,Hearing each whisper, sound and thoughtA lonesome and wandering little wind,Shattering all that has been soughtOh, how I wish I was where you are,Not separated by empty space, so farIt seems like we’re galaxies apart,But we find hope within our heartAnd how I wish I was all of the above,So I can come below and yet forget,The beauty of angels which come down like a doveAnd demons who love with no regret.”

“Death is nature’s way of saying, ‘Your table is ready.”

“Life is here, death is over there. I am here, not over there.”

“If we knew a person was going to die, we’d hold harder to the memories.”Fire corrected him, in a whisper. “The good memories.”

“I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.”

“Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.”

“I take no actions that I wouldn’t publicly recount. If you can’t speak your deeds, then don’t do them.”

“I think that, with age, people come to realize that death is inevitable. And we need to learn to face it with serenity, wisdom and resignation. Death often frees us from a lot of senseless sufferings.”

“You know how cats do. They hide to die. Dogs come home.”

“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”

“What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.”

“Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.”

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”