“Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.”
More from Anne Rice on Death
“I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely rise from coffins.”
“Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt”
“Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither.”
“Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die.”
“As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.”
“To die or not to die, that is the question; it is nobler to live in torment and rage than not to live at all?”
Others on Death
Markus Zusak
10 quotes“A small fact:You are going to die....does this worry you?”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; yo...”
Khalil Gibran
6 quotes“Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.”
Edgar Allan Poe
5 quotes“Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
John Donne
5 quotes“Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.”
Neil Gaiman
5 quotes“Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze...”
Gabriel García Márquez
5 quotes“Each man is master of his own death and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”
Graham Greene
4 quotes“We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”
Agatha Christie
4 quotes“Death was for-the other people.”
Charles Bukowski
4 quotes“Dying should come easy:like a freight train youdon't hear whenyour back isturned.”
Joseph Stalin
4 quotes“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”
Emily Dickinson
4 quotes“Dying is a wild night and a new road.”