Candide Quote by Jandy Nelson

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.

— Anonymous

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

— David Eagleman

Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.

— C. S. Lewis

“He can’t be alive,” Candy said. “It’s not natural.” “He isn’t alive,” Jonah said. “He’s dead.” “He’s undead,” Satan added. “He’s walking around,” Candy…

— Tonia Brown

“But he has not killed himself, for a glimmer of belief still tells him that he is to drink this frightful suffering in his…

— hermann hesse

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

— Patricia Briggs

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.

— Seneca the Younger

“Like everybody else in the cocktail lounge, he was softening his brain with alcohol. This was a substance produced by a tiny creature called…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Will not taste death” means exactly what it says. Our principal confusion with it is that we persistently misinterpret everything he says as being…

— Rogier Fentene Van Vlissingen

DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.

— Terry Pratchett

The drunken man is a living corpse.

— Saint John Chrysostom

There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by…

— Jack London