“...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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming fo...”

“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.”