“for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.”
More from Markus Zusak on Death
“...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.”
“***HERE IS A SMALL FACT*** You are going to die.”
“Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
“Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.”
“Even death has a heart.”
“I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
“When death tells a story yo really have to listen”
“A small fact:You are going to die....does this worry you?”
“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
Others on Death
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.”
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.”
Emily Dickinson
4 quotes“Dying is a wild night and a new road.”
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.”