Death Quote by Gabriel García Márquez

“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.”

— Chad Harbach

“He saw his coming death, and wasn’t afraid of it anymore. He’d miss all the good stuff to follow, but he’d help make it…

— James S.A. Corey

“That got him thinking about his life. It seemed a bitter, pointless sort of life now. No one was any better off because of…

— Joe Abercrombie

“He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of…

— Alma Katsu

“I saw that they wanted to kill the past. When we are old, we let it die; when we are young and strong, we…

— Henri Barbusse

“Fairness," he said, 'does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.”

— Mitch Albom

“Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper…

— Donna Leon

“Perhaps the only thing we might legitimately lament in an old man’s death would be his failure to have used his time well.”

— Shawn Davis

“He had a high opinion of his own insight, a weakness excusable in him as he was fifty, an age at which a clever…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“... and I experienced the bitter helplessness of a taunted old man dying to be whole again.”

— Philip Roth

“Life was funny, and fickle, and often cruel. Sometimes the unworthy went on living, while those who deserved better was lost. Or not lost,…

— Nicholas Eames

“None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he’d managed to live forty-two…

— Jonathan Safran Foer