“...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more deat...”

“I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely...”

“And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. “There’s no justice.”Death sighed. No, he said... ther...”

“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”

“Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”

“A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..”

“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”

“Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.”

“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”

“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.”

“Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we kno...”

“Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.”