“Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.”
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Markus Zusak
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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.”
Graham Greene
4 quotes“We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”
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.”