“There are worse ways to die than warm and drunk.”
More from George R.R. Martin on Death
“Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know of the days to come.”
“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
“The grave casts long shadows, Iron Lord," Mirri said. "Long and dark, and in the end no light can hold them back.”
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...”
Anne Rice
7 quotes“Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.”
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.”
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.”
Edgar Allan Poe
5 quotes“Even in the grave, all is not lost.”
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...”
John Donne
5 quotes“Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.”
Jasper Fforde
4 quotes“Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.”
Agatha Christie
4 quotes“Death was for-the other people.”
Epicurus
4 quotes“Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence...”
Joseph Stalin
4 quotes“The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.”