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I looked Death right in the face.
Travis Barker
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.
Terry Pratchett
You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew.
John Green
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
George Bernard Shaw
A plague a' both your houses
William Shakespeare
Divorce is probably as painful as death.
William Shatner
After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
Jaron Lanier
ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king.HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing -GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord?HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!
I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.
Annie Lennox
I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that.
Agatha Christie, An Autobiograph
The crowd could not know that they were cheering but somehow they did, somehow they understood that the circle between death-worship and death-wish had been completed for another year and the crowd went completely loopy, convulsing itself in greater and greater paroxysms.
Stephen King
A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.
Gustave Flaubert
Mild is the slow necessity of death;The tranquil spirit fails beneath its grasp,Without a groan, almost without a fear,Resigned in peace to the necessity;Calm as a voyager to some distant land,And full of wonder, full of hope as he.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Daemon
So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
George Orwell
If she could have died...if she could have disappeared forever...but the solid surface of things refused to dissolve around her, and her body, her hateful hermaphrodite's body, continued in its stubborn, lumpen way, to live...
J.K. Rowling
No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.
Cassandra Clare
We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
Orson Scott Card
I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep!
Kirk Hammett
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Adlai E. Stevenson
People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.
Jessica Simpson