Kindlehighlight Quote by Daniel Abraham

“But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive.”

— George Orwell

“Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Death is coming—but hopefully not before old age, decrepitude, and senility.
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— Jarod Kintz

“It was then as he discovered that death could elude him that the fear of death returned.”

— Paulo Coelho

“The death is a bearable certainty. If it would only hurry.”

— Derviš Sušić

“Death is inexorable but not treacherous.”

— Ann Aguirre

“All deaths are sudden, no matter how gradual the dying may be.”

— Michael McDowell

“Death is inevitable. Life is inevitable too. However, the timing is somewhat flexible.”

— Amelia Mysko

“Impending death had a way of unexpectedly unearthing the past so that it came together with the present in an unholy coupling.”

— Abraham Verghese

“This is, I believe, it: not the crude anguish of physical death but the incomparable pangs of the mysterious mental maneuver needed to pass…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“But folk who have tasted of death are only partly alive. In the dark corners of their souls and minds, death still lurks unconquered.”

— Robert E. Howard

“I try not to think that death might really just be losing one’s mind forever. So scattered that it never comes back.”

— J.R. Rain