Quotes of: Death-and-taxes Keyword

The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.

Among Others

The festivity had reached that apogee of joy when you face the happy fate of being crushed to death.

The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.

Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas

I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.

Idylls of the King

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?

Invisible Monsters

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

Iris And Ruby

I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome

InuYasha: Stolen Spirit

How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.

The Infinite Sea

...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

Janet Frame: An Autobiography

Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness – to glory?

Jane Eyre

There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.

The Journey Is The Destination: A Photo Journal

I realized that love is stronger than death and that people you barely know can amaze you.

Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

Eve: "Where's Mister Scary?" Roarke: "Summerset has the night off." Eve: "You mean the house is Summerset-free? Damn shame we have to waste it with work.

Kindred in Death

Shane dragged Eve's suitcase into the room and dumped it on the floor beside her bed. “Hey, Dark Princess? Here’s your crap. Also, bite me.

Kiss of Death

You're just Little Miss Optimist, aren't you? Do you come with accessories, like a glass half full and lemons to make into lemonade, too?

Kiss of Death

It's bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You'll do your best not to act like children.

Kiss of Death

I’m bored to death. Perhaps I should pillage one of my neighbors for my own amusement. It seems to work for Drowden.

Kristin Cashore eSampler

If you add the shadow of death to a moment of passion you are in that instant free of all normal ties, your mind grows still and your body enters a state of non-being.

Katie in Love

O my love, my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

Romeo and Juliet

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means

Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I am in Hell, he said.

Ruinland