“We’re all dying, Cassel. It’s just that some of us are dying faster than others.”

“Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)”

“Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.”

“All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others.”

“We are all immigrants to this land. It's just that some of us came earlier than others.”

“The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.”

“Knowledge of inner processes in body and mind is as helpful for one’s own preparation for death as it is for people who care for others who are dying. If one knows what to expect while dying, the conditions can be used and fears specifically removed.”

“I’m not sure I like their plan for converting us to their religion, seeing as it involves dying and all.”

“All ways of dying are hateful to us poor mortals,
true, but to die of hunger, starve to death—
that's the worst of all.”

“Since Pharaoh’s bits were pushed into the jaws of kings, these dyings—patient or impatient, but dyings—have happened, by the hundreds of millions; they were all wasted. They taught us to kill others and to die ourselves, but never how to live. Who is “taught to live” by cruelty, suffering, stupidity, and that occupational disease of soldiers, death?”