All Quotes By Tag: Death

“A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy.”

“But Hazael only said, “I brought you a present.”Liraz took the flower, looked at it, and then a Hazael, expressionless. And then she ate it. She chewed the flower and swallowed it.”Hmm,” said Hazael. “Not the usual response.””Oh, do you give flowers often?””Yes,” he said. He probably did. Hazael had a way of enjoying life in spite of the many restrictions they lived under, being soldiers, and worse, being Misbegotten. “I hope it wasn’t poisonous,” he said lightly.Liraz just shrugged. “There are worse ways to die.”

“One pain is lessened by another’s anguish. … Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.”

“Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.”

“I look back to where my life had been. It’s always risky to think of letting go. That’s why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile.”

“The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon ‘Hell and Damnation’—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do, the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.[Essay entitled ‘On Christianity’, published posthumously]”

“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”

“I said to myself, ‘I want to die decently’.”

“I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I’m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.”

“Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.”

“Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.”

“What happens if a car comes? We die.”

“Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell death, and who will stand by my Constanze, if you do not stay?”

“Of course I want to kill you,” said Skulduggery. “I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to.”

“You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.”