Quotes About Death

Of course, if more people had been organ donors, unwinding never would have happened . . . but people like to keep what's theirs, even after they're dead. It didn't take long for ethics to be crushed by greed.

He didn't just break her neck," Scythe Goddard pointed out. "He unflinchingly snapped her spine! Everyone heard it. I'm sure it woke up the scythes sleeping in the back row!" "Classic!" said Scythe Chomsky, guzzling his champagne down, not waiting for the toast.

The ending of human life used to be in the hands of nature. But we stole it. Now we have a monopoly on death. We are its sole distributor.

The scythedom—or what was left of it after the global revolts—had a new calling. They no longer brought uninvited death. Instead they brought much-needed peace.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we ever lose that.

I ask for guidance. And for courage. And I beg - oh, how I beg - that I never become so desensitized to the death... that it feels normal. Commonplace.

Mi mayor deseo para la humanidad no es la paz ni la comodidad ni la alegría. Es que todavía sigamos muriendo un poco por dentro cada vez que seamos testigos de la muerte

The fear of not living is a deep, abiding dread of watching your own potential decompose into irredeemable disappointment when "should be" gets crushed by what is. Sometimes I think it would be easier to die than to face that, because "what could have been" is much more highly regarded than "what should have been." Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

Dying was easy. A paper cut? That would be annoying.

Maybe it kills bad scythes,' Munira suggested. 'No,' said Rowan, 'that would be me.

Death makes the whole world kin. Rowan wondered if a world without death would then make everyone strangers.

The dead have nothing left to them but a silent faith in that unknowable infinity--even if theirs is an infinity that nothing waits but an infinity of infinities.

Being a dead prophet was much better than being a live one.

Mieux vaut avoir tort qu'être mort. — père de Kelton

I can't believe that you're being taught by the Scythe Curie. The Grandma of Death! Grande Dame, not grandma.

We are angels of death, said Scythe Goddard. It is only fitting that we swoop in from the heavens.

Be my son or my daughter for a year, and I will give you power over life and death.

My greatest wish for humanity is not for peace or comfort or joy. It is that we all still die a little inside every time we witness the death of another. For only the pain of empathy will keep us human. There's no version of God that can help us if we lose that.

I can't believe you're being taught by the Scythe Curie. The Grandma of Death!

Death by fire is the only natural death left.

Here, here, seconded Scythe Rand. You can come to my room and break my neck any time.

But yes, it is sad to live and die without knowing the truth of one's existence. Only sad to us, however. Not to them.

when the doorbell rang, there was no sense of foreboding—no dimming of the sun, no foreshadowing of the arrival of death at their door.

a simple truth remains: People have to die.