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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”