“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
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.”
“for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.”
“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?”
Others on Death
Anne Rice
7 quotes“I watched him rise from the coffin, with slow, elegant gestures; our gestures, for we are the only beings who routinely...”
Terry Pratchett
7 quotes“And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. “There’s no justice.”Death sighed. No, he said... ther...”
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.”
Neil Gaiman
5 quotes“A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..”
Gabriel García Márquez
5 quotes“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
John Donne
5 quotes“Grief brought to numbers cannot be so fierce,For, he tames it, that fetters it in verse.”
Edgar Allan Poe
5 quotes“Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.”
Agatha Christie
4 quotes“Discussions of death and such matters do more to unlock the human tongue than any other subject.”
Graham Greene
4 quotes“We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.”
Emily Dickinson
4 quotes“Parting is all we know of Heaven,and all we need of Hell.”
Joseph Stalin
4 quotes“Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.”
Charles Bukowski
4 quotes“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...”