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Quotations by Subject: Death
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Showing quotations 31 to 60 of 93 quotations in our collections

Will there be poetry in Heaven?...I think there will be something better,. Something that poetry reminds us of, and that is why we are drawn to love it. I think loving all earthly beauty is a way to lead us to love Heavenly beauty. So there will not be sunsets or poetry, but there will be something like them but even better.: Jo Walton, Lent: A Novel of Many Returns, 2019
I can’t talk about our love story, so I will talk about math. I am not a mathematician, but I know this: There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There’s .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I’m likely to get. But, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn’t trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
If the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
If you were to go [to the Rijksmuseum], and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude getting stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
It’s almost as if the way you imagine my dead self says more about you than it says about either the person I was or the whatever I am now.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
Nostalgia is a side effect of dying.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
Someone told me once that when your mother is dead, you are living both lives -- your life and hers.: John Green (1977 - ), Hollywood, Ending, 2026
That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
The dead are not in the past, not really, because you carry them around with you.: John Green (1977 - ), Hollywood, Ending, 2026
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
Thinking you won’t die is yet another side effect of dying.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
[Not smoking the cigarette is] a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don’t give it the power to do its killing.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.: Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953)
Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that's overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We've all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
We resent the thought that anything can please us when someone we love is no longer here to share the pleasure with us, and we almost feel as if we were unfaithful to our sorrow when we find our interest in life returning to us.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.: Louis C. K., Louis C. K.: Hilarious, 2011
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
The report of my death was an exaggeration.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), New York Journal, June 2, 1897
Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!: Matt Frewer, as Dr. Mike Stratford in "Doctor, Doctor"
If you don't think your life is worth more than someone else's, sign your donor card and kill yourself now.: Matthew V. Lewis, House M.D., Last Resort, 2008
How his death hung over that house. It’s part of what I know to be true—your absence is greater than your presence.: Michael Hainey, After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story, 2013

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