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Quotes About Death

Uno nunca termina de leer, aunque los libros se acaben, de la misma manera que uno nunca termina de vivir, aunque la muerte sea un hecho cierto.
~ Roberto Bolano
Y sin embargo cuando hablamos, digamos, cuando hablamos de hombre a hombre. Suena horrible, pero ese es el nombre de ese tipo de conversación crepuscular. Me dejo entender que estaba allí para hacerse matar, que supongo no es lo mismo que estar allí para matarte o para suicidarte. El matiz está en que no te tomas la molestia de hacerlo tu mismo
~ Roberto Bolano
Una pelea? -Dije - No, un duelo - Dijo Belano. ¿Y quien ganó? No sé si yo lo maté a él o él me mató a mí -Dijo Belano.
~ Roberto Bolano
Soñé que nadie muere la víspera.
~ Roberto Bolano
Cualquiera es capaz de morir»
~ Roberto Bolano
Yo no me moriré nunca . O me moriré a los noventaicinco años, que es lo mismo que no morirse nunca.
~ Roberto Bolano
Penso nos poetas mortos no potro de tortura, nos mortos de aids, de overdose, em todos os que acreditaram no paraíso latino-americano e morreram no inferno latino-americano.
~ Roberto Bolano
Once I asked him what kind of women he liked. It was a stupid question, asked by an adolescent looking for something to say. But the Grub took it seriously and considered his reply for a long time. Finally he said, Calm women. And then he added, But only the dead are really calm. And after a while, Not even the dead, come to think of it.
~ Roberto Bolano
His name is Inaki Echevarne, we had a duel. A fight? I said. No, a duel. And who won? I don't know which of us killed the other, said Belano. Fantastic! I said. Yes, he said.
~ Roberto Bolano
mis enemigos deben de creer que ya estoy criando malvas en el cementerio.
~ Roberto Bolano
so I could say we had our first real conversation in the sea, and the feeling I had then, the conviction that I wouldn't make it back to shore, the intimation of death by drowning under a matte blue sky, a sky that looked like a lung in a tub of blue paint, persisted throughout all of our subsequent conversations.
~ Roberto Bolano
Escribió, o pensó que escribía: La muerte es mi corazón. Y después: Toma mi corazón. Y después su nombre: Carlos Wieder, sin temerle a la lluvia ni a los relámpagos. Sin temerle, sobre todo, a la incoherencia.
~ Roberto Bolano
Follar es lo único que desean los que van a morir.
~ Roberto Bolano
Ade accennò un sorriso con le sopracciglia: non abbiamo notizia di un sorriso più misterioso di quello che increspò allora la fronte del signore dei morti. Era il sorriso di colui che sa, e segnala con quel lieve cenno la sua distanza da tutto ciò che avviene.
~ Roberto Calasso
Some would sing as they killed the bear, so that the bear, while dying, could say: "I like that song.
~ Roberto Calasso
On December 3 the New York Times announced the death of Pablo Escobar on the front page. "Pablo Escobar, who rose from the slums of Colombia to become one of the world's most murderous and successful cocaine traffickers, was killed in a hail of gunfire… . "The death is not expected to seriously affect cocaine traffic.
~ Roberto Escobar
T]he witch appears to have alternated between being a terrifying enemy who could bring ruin and death and a pathetic figure to be despised and insulted.
~ Robin Briggs
If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.
~ Robin Gibb
The illness, and the untimely death of my brothers, has made me conscious of the fact that - rather than just think about it - it's crucial that you do today what you want to do.
~ Robin Gibb
The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat---I just don't think about it.
~ Robin Green
For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
~ Robin Hobb
None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, than you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing.
~ Robin Hobb
We did hard things for each other. Risked our lives. Gave up our lives and faced death, and then faced life again. You might be surprised to find that facing life can be much harder than facing death.
~ Robin Hobb
It's a change, and I don't like changes, especially changes I don't understand.' 'Life is change,' the Fool observed lacidly. 'And death is an even greater change. I think we must resign ourselves to change, Fitz.' 'I'm tired of resigning myself to things. My entire life has been one long resignation.
~ Robin Hobb