death

"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

"Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all…"

"In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life."

"There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken…"

"What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying."

"After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die."

"Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living."

"If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right"

"The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with…"

"He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave."

"I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life."

"Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten."

"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."

"It's better to burn out than to fade away."

"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."

"One lives in the hope of becoming a memory."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions dro…"

"That's what literature is. It's the people who went before us, tapping out messages from the past, from beyond the grave, trying to tell us about life and death! Listen to them!"

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."