“It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. – Bertrand Zobrist”

“They go on to this better place, you know, which is what they wanted all along. But you and me, we’re still left behind with all the questions they couldn’t answer.”

“For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.”

“I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.”

“The desert was a school, a school where each day, each hour, a final examination was offered, where failure meant death and the buzzards landed to correct the papers.”

“If you Have ever Fainted, You Are a stranger in the land of the dead!”

“Death’s life should have listened to the moonly whispers of breathing in the coldest nights”

“This is what I feared would come; this is what I have dreaded. It is not very bright and honorable as you have always thought it; it is not like a ballad. It is a muddle and a mess, and a sinful waste, and good men have died and more will follow.”

“A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.”

“Live life while you have it; the fact that you have it is highly improbable, the fact that you will lose it is guaranteed.”

“She had thought he was dead, or at least not totally alive, and you could not still be dating someone you believe had an autopsy, so it was not really cheating.”

“It’s your call. You want to go back home, go ahead. But if I were you, I wouldn’t. Home is death.”

“I just want to die knowing that I’ve made a difference in the world… or at least a difference to someone, no matter how small the difference.”

“Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.”

“Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being?”