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Quotes About Death

If flowers were boogers, I'd pick a few big ones and flick them on your grave.
~ Jarod Kintz
He had a new girl, and I told him she looked like Marilyn Monroe. He smiled because he thought I meant she was beautiful, and I smiled because I meant she looked like a corpse.
~ Jarod Kintz
Some people try to change the world one life at a time. Others try to change the world one death at a time. And I try to change the world one bucket full of dirt at a time.
~ Jarod Kintz
I want to scream sometimes, because I hate when people refer to a dead person as the late" so and so. I'm sorry to break that bad news, but that person isn't just late—they're not even coming!
~ Jarod Kintz
A single second is enough like steam in a retort to hiss, obedient to the alchemist and drops dead as a hunted dove.
~ Jaroslav Seifert
If we devoted as much effort to investigating the dead as we do to building the weapons that make them dead, we'd know a lot more about life after death." "Dead
~ Jason Arnopp
While American verdicts had reached millions, the Philippine limits, first imposed in 2000, capped the awards at $60,000, even for death.
~ Jason DeParle
If it's DOA, bury it.
~ Jason Jennings
The upshot to dying is that you don't have to go to work the next day.
~ Jason Love
Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
~ Jasper Fforde
Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.
~ Jasper Fforde
I think it was probably both the coincidence and the beer that made Miralles say at some point that we were going to end up the same, defeated and alone and punch-drunk in a dead-end city, pissing blood before going into the ring to fight to the death against our own shadows in an empty stadium.
~ Javier Cercas
Kahramanlar, ancak öldüklerinde ya da öldürüldüklerinde kahraman olurlar. Gerçek kahramanlar savaÅŸta doÄŸarlar, savaÅŸta ölürler. YaÅŸayan kahraman yoktur, delikanl?. Bütün kahramanlar ölüdür.
~ Javier Cercas
We don't object to our date of birth, so why object to our date of death, which is just as much a matter of chance.
~ Javier Marías
The bad thing about terrible misfortunes, the kind that tear us apart and appear to be unendurable, is that those who suffer them believe or almost demand that the world should end right there, and yet the world pays no heed and carries on regardless and even tugs at the sleeve of the person who suffered the misfortune, I mean, it won't just let them depart this world the way a disgruntled spectator might leave the theatre, unless the unfortunate person kills him or herself.
~ Javier Marías
The worse thing that can happen to anyone, worse than death itself, and the worst thing one can make others do, is to return from the place from which no one returns, to come back to life at the wrong time, when you are no longer expected, when it's too late and inappropriate, when the living have assumed you are over and done with and have continued or taken up their lives again, leaving no room for you at all.
~ Javier Marías
Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, desespera y muere.»
~ Javier Marías
No es fácil saber por qué se mata la gente, ni los más próximos, todo el mundo está trastornado, todo el mundo las pasa putas, a veces sin causa y casi siempre en secreto, la gente vuelve cara contra la almohada y espera al día siguiente. De pronto no esperan.
~ Javier Marías
Tengo el convencimiento de que el mayor dolor es el de la conciencia, contra el que no hay apenas remedio ni amortiguamiento, ni más cesación que la muerte, y aun así de eso no estamos seguros.
~ Javier Marías
Prefiero la palidez de este muerto andante al color del mundo entero. Prefiero demorarme y morir en su palidez que vivir a la luz de todos los vivos.
~ Javier Marías
cualquiera muere en cualquier instante.
~ Javier Marías
Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí, y caiga tu espada sin filo: desespera y muere.
~ Javier Marías
O mundo é na verdade tanto dos vivos e tão pouco dos mortos - se bem que permaneçam todos na terra e sejam muitos mais - que aqueles tendem a pensar que a morte de um ente querido é qualquer coisa que se passou com eles mais que com o defunto, com quem na verdade se passou.
~ Javier Marías
They were mostly French, a few Arabs, and despite their uniforms they didn't look very important any more. Later I learned that if you watch men die, especially if you've known them at all, they still look important afterward no matter what you have to do with them, but I was inexperienced then.
~ Douglas Woolf