Quote by Herman Melville

“Several years ago, a boy I knew and loved killed himself.”

— Jennifer Niven

“Death doesn't change anything, the boy thought.”

— Paulo Coelho

“How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?”

— E. E. Cummings

“I suppose I should have died right then from pure misery and self-pity, but if those things were fatal, no one would ever make…

— Jeff Lindsay

“Death brings the anonymity of a post office box, allowing me to slip through the coming centuries silent and unobserved.”

— William Roetzheim

“I needed to know that Death was here, in the room, and that I was too fast, too young, and too smart for him.”

— Tony O'Neill

“As a boy I got the idea that death was an animal which lay curled inside waiting to swallow us.”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant.”

— Polly Horvath

“My son, Here may indeed be torment, but not death.”

— Dante Alighieri

“He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die…

— Joe Abercrombie

“…he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it’s happening to him. Very post-modern.”

— Neal Stephenson

“Death is a dignitary who when he comes announced is to be received with formal manifestations of respect, even by those most familiar with…

— Ambrose Bierce