“She's realized the real problem with stories -- if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.”
More from Neil Gaiman on Death
“Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead”
“Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad.Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough.”
“Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze us.”
“A grayeyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy..”
Others on Death
Markus Zusak
10 quotes“A small fact:You are going to die....does this worry you?”
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.”
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.”