“I’m the god of funerals. I know every death custom in the world—how to die properly, how to prepare the body and soul for the afterlife. I live for death.”
“You must be fun at parties,” I said.”
Source: The Red Pyramid
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Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“That I shall sink in death, I know must be;
But with that death of mine what life will die?”
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As quoted in "Giordano Bruno" by Thomas Davidson, in The Index Vol. VI. No. 36 (4 March 1886), p. 429
Context: That I shall sink in death, I know must be;
But with that death of mine what life will die? Across the air, I hear my heart's voice cry:
Where dost thou bear me reckless one? Descend!
Such rashness seldom ends but bitterly'
"Fear not the lofty fall" I answer "rend
With might the clouds, and be content to die,
If God such a glorious death for us intend."
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Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
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(15 October 1994)
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Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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Source: To the Most Reverend Nun Xenia (c. 1344), p. 296
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Last words, according to his friend the Prince de Ligne (Mémoires et mélanges historiques et littéraires, book IV, p. 42 http://www.google.com/books?id=upYBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA42&q=%22Grand+Dieu%22, translated for instance in: The Freeman, p. 224 http://www.google.com/books?id=mmkQAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Great+God%22+%22and+I+die+as+a+Christian%22)
“Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?"
"I guess it depends on how you die.”
Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain