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Quotes About Death

Oh, hullo, Worthing,' he said in a cheery manner. 'How are things?' 'Outlook stormy with a chance of scattered death moving in randomly from all points of the compass.
~ Jasper Fforde
Up until the moment of death, there was a 100% survival rate. Really. I wouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.
~ Jasper Fforde
I had learned from my own father's death many years ago that the end of one's life and dying are two very different things indeed, and took solace in that.
~ Jasper Fforde
Why does everyone think I've been in prison?" "Because you were heading towards either death or prison when we last met—and you are not dead.
~ Jasper Fforde
will involuntarily expel the spores in a single explosive death cough. THAT is the moment to panic and leap out of the nearest window--irrespective of which floor you're on, or whether it is open or not.
~ Jasper Fforde
He was shot dead in the old town during a bookbuy that went wrong.
~ Jasper Fforde
Maybe those sorts of yes or no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well … they're just a fathomless collection of greys and I don't do so well on the mid-tones.
~ Jasper Fforde
It began to darken. Not the darkness that was already within the yateveo but an enveloping darkness, even blacker than the night but without depth or time. this was it. And as far as reporting what death was like, I can use only one word: colorless. But oddly, that wasn't quite it. After what could have been anything between a couple of seconds and a century, I saw a dim sliver of light open up in front of me, and I believed, for a moment, that I was about to be reborn.
~ Jasper Fforde
The color painted within the Green Room was known as sweetdream and would render you unconscious in twelve minutes and dead in sixteen, but during those twelve minutes every synapse in your brain would fire in a sparkling fountain of pleasure. The cries from the Green Room were never of pain or fear. They were of ecstasy.
~ Jasper Fforde
death was just a natural part of the cycle of renewal, and that life should be seen not as a two-hundred-hard hurdle with a tape to reach before anyone else, but more like a relay race without end, and only one team.
~ Jasper Fforde
que en algún momento me despertaré y estaré en la lona del ring, asesinado por un oriental muy gordo que sonríe igual que la muerte.
~ Javier Cercas
Los héroes sólo son héroes cuando se mueren o los matan
~ Javier Cercas
Nadie. Nadie se acuerda siquiera de por qué murieron, de por qué no tuvieron mujer e hijos y una habitación con sol; nadie, y, menos que nadie, la gente por la que pelearon.
~ Javier Cercas
Pero cuando Miralles muera —pensé—, sus amigos también morirán del todo, porque no habría nadie que se acuerde de ellos para que no mueran.
~ Javier Cercas
One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.
~ Javier Marías
The fog grows stronger," she intoned in her prophecy voice. "The danger is coming closer. This storm will end in madness and death." North looked at her. "Out of curiosity, do you ever do happy, cheerful, positive-thinking prophecies?" "Sadly, not very often." Harmony fell back into her normal voice. "Certainly not lately. How about dinner and a drink over at the restaurant? It's lasagna night." "Sounds good," North said.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
It occurred to her that after what he must have seen in the course of his FBI profiling work, death by garden tools was probably a fairly tame scenario.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
died of natural causes," Madeline said. "I believe she
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
He blinked, then roared with laughter. Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books. ~Eternity in Death
~ Unknown
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
~ Jean Baudrillard
It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge.
~ Jean Baudrillard
If being a nihilist, is carrying, to the unbearable limit of hegemonic systems, this radical trait of derision and of violence, this challenge that the system is summoned to answer through its own death, then I am a terrorist and nihilist in theory as the others are with their weapons. Theoretical violence, not truth, is the only resource left us.
~ Jean Baudrillard
We live of seduction, but die Fascination
~ Jean Baudrillard
The strategy of power has long seemed founded on the apathy of the masses. The more passive they were, the more secure it was. But this logic is only characteristic of the bureaucratic and centralist phase of power. And it is this which today turns against it: the inertia it has fostered becomes the sign of its death.
~ Jean Baudrillard