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Quotes About Death

In the midst of a hive of customers and clerks, a small boy with blond hair neatly parted on one side stares up into the face of a bronze sculpture. It is Cuchulainn himself---the warrior light. The Hound of Coolan lashed to a boulder with spear drawn. But The Hound is leaning to one side and dying in a public hall of the Dublin Post Office.
~ Laura Treacy Bentley
Someone was looking at me, a disturbing sensation if you're dead.
~ Laura Whitcomb
You have to hit it," she told herself. "This could be life or death." She positioned her rifle and made herself comfortable on the rock. Chief had disappeared. A hawk screed high overhead. She
~ Lauraine Snelling
Life's a bitch," I said. "And then you die," Larry finished for me.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
He'd kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur's reasons. Of course, you'll be just as dead.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
He's no more human than I am, ma petite. At least I'm not dead. That can be remedied.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Animators Inc., where our motto was Where the Living Raise the Dead for a Killing .
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
If you're alive, don't move, if you're dead, don't worry about it.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Death cures all ills. Well, most of them.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death. - Jean-Claude
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Rafael, the Rat King, stared at the carnage with black-button eyes. She is dead. Ding dong, the witch is dead
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
No, death hadn't changed [Willie] much. But just in case, I avoided looking directly into his eyes. It was standard policy for dealing with vampires. He was a slime bucket, but now he was an undead slime bucket.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Raising the dead was easy; love was hard.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
That body did not bleed while I carried it, Nesbit. You touch it but a moment, and it bleeds. No, I didn't kill her. ... The dead always know who to blame. They are very good that way.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Do you have a problem with us hunting down and killing a god from your pantheon? If it is a god, then you cannot kill it, and if you can kill it, then it is not a god. I do not mourn the death of false gods.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Whoever skinned them is an expert, Marks said. He knew how to keep them alive. No, Edward said. No matter how good you are at torture, you can't keep everybody alive. Even if you do exactly the same thing to each of them, some people die and some people live. You're not always sure why some make it, and some don't. His voice was very quiet, but it filled the hush of the room.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Graves are for the living, not the dead.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
For one pleasant second I almost let the zombie do him in. Exploiting the dead is one thing I feel strongly about, but . . . stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop. I
~ Laurell K. Hamilton