“Nowadays, in Japan, when mother, or baby, or mother and baby die in childbirth, people say, ‘Ah…they die because gods decide so.’… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Killing depends on circumstances, as you'd expect, whether it's a cold, planned murder, or a hot death in a fight, or inspired… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“People're always buried facing west, so at the end of time when the Last Trumpet blows, all the dead people'll claw their… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“& only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“heading to.’ I consider airing my theory that our culture’s coping strategy towards death is to bury it under consumerism and samsara;… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“A no-name place, as far as I could see, but it had a miserable cafe-cum-garage-cum-funeral parlor shared by a gang of silent… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“See, I thinked, Meronym knows a lot 'bout Smart an' life but Valleysmen know more 'bout death.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
If the human condition were the periodic table, maybe love would be hydrogen at No. 1. Death would be helium at No.… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Shiroyama’s heart stops. The earth’s pulse beats against his ear. An inch away is a go clamshell stone, perfect and smooth …… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“the elderly are guilty: guilty of proving to us that our willful myopia about death is exactly that. But,” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“…It's as if they actually think that what other people think of them somehow doesn't matter. I mean, I know we're all… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“In the next room a freckly girl Julia's age sat in a wheelchair. One of her legs wasn't there. She'd probably love to have… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“... Ethical cyberexplorers are responsible, yeah? We are friendly ghosts in the machine, not poltergeists or hooligans. We are a growing breed. Over sixty-five… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“I succumbed. Late-fifteenth-century verb, Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, but a basic necessity of the human condition, especially mine.” — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The second tunnel’s a Ministry of Defence tunnel...dug for a nuclear bomb shelter. The entrance is in the garden center at Woolworth’s in Great… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
War's an auction where whoever can pay the most in damage and still be standing wins. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . . — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
