“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“...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more deat...”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. “There’s no justice.”Death sighed. No, he said... ther...”
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 with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”
Neil Gaiman
5 quotes“A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..”
Gabriel García Márquez
5 quotes“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
John Donne
5 quotes“Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.”
Mitch Albom
4 quotes“Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another.”
George R.R. Martin
4 quotes“Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we kno...”
Jasper Fforde
4 quotes“Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable.”
Agatha Christie
4 quotes“Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.”
Graham Greene
4 quotes“We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”