“...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.”

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

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

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

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

“Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.”

“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.”

“We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”

“Parting is all we know of Heaven,and all we need of Hell.”