“You can pump him full of chemicals. You can put makeup on him. You can prop him up for a nap in the slumber room; but the fact remains, David, that the only father we're ever gonna have is gone! Forever…and that sucks, but it's a goddamned part of life and you can't really accept it without getting…”— Alan Ball, Nate Fisher, Peter Krause, imdb.com
“You know what, Ren? I looked Death right in the eye, and it smelled like cheap cigars and stinkyfish. You see, Ren, life is like a bowling alley. Oh, you make some strikes, if you're lucky, a couple of spares, and nobody knows how to keep score, but in the end, you gotta rent ill-fitting, smelly sho…”— John Kricfalusi, Ren Höek (voice), Billy West, imdb.com
“I'm not trying to die. I'm just waiting for death to come. Like sitting on a bench at the station, waiting for the train.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I think we cry to release the animal parts of us without losing our humanity.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“In my life, I have been so lucky. Though I do wonder: Is this my love story? Is it theirs?”— Judith Newman, nytimes.com
“Can somebody just let me out of here? If I die in a cage I lose a bet.”— Matt Roller, Dan Harmon, Rick Sanchez (voice), Justin Roiland, imdb.com
“Nobody exists on purpose, nobody belongs anywhere, everybody's gonna die. Come watch TV.”— Tom Kauffman, Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Morty Smith (voice), Justin Roiland, imdb.com
“Death doesn't really bother me unless it's someone I know. And even then, if it happens in a funny way, like my cousin who, honest to God, was flattened by a steamroller... I still actually enjoy it.”— Debra Fordham, Perry Cox, John C. McGinley, imdb.com
“Ultimately you’ll die, and dealing with that will help you understand why it’s a big deal that you’re here at all.”— Ephrat Livni, qz.com
“If you cut off a man's head, he dies. Why? Because it kills him. That is really the whole answer.”— Aleister Crowley, amazon.com
“You can’t grieve for a guy who didn’t exist yet. All we have to go on here is what he actually did while alive.”— Miles Klee, melmagazine.com
“What is this taht I can see Cold icy hands taking hold of me for Death has come, you all can see. Hell has open it,s gate to trick me. Oh! Death, Oh! Death, can't you spare me, over for another year! I'll stuff your jaws till you can't talk I'll blind your leg's till you can't walk I'll tie your han…”— Dennis Rader, foxnews.com
“The concept of death was beyond his powers of imagination. And pain was something he wasn't aware of until he actually felt it.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and image a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here—me included—will have disappeared from the face of the earth and turned into ashes or dust.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. The skies no longer rain death—the seas bear only commerce men everywhere walk upright in the sunlight. The entire world is quietly at peace. The holy mission has been completed.”— Douglas Macarthur, freedomdocuments.com
“Old as I am, I long for youth — the everlasting youth of which the strength and savour fails not. I have lived long enough to know the sameness of this world — though there is much therein to please the heart and eye of a man — but with that roving restlessness that was born within me, I desire to s…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“I have suffered in thine absence — the sufferings of the body that, being yet strong in spite of age, is reluctant to take leave of life. But it is past! I am as one numbed with everlasting frost — and now I feel no pain. And my mind is like a bird that poises for a while over past and present, ere…”— Marie Corelli, amazon.com
“It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way. Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death.”— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com