Cyberpunk Quote by Neal Stephenson

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

— Neal Stephenson

“His mortality was suddenly everywhere at once.”

— Hugh Howey

“People get used to everything but being dead.”

— Richard Stark

“His life was merely a slow-moving tragedy, an act of steady dying conducted before everyone's eyes.”

— Simon Winchester

“Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.”

— Herman Melville

“People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.”

— Lauren DeStefano

“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

“Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it , the more it gnawed away at…

— Christopher Paolini

“He could feel his stomach churning. I’m repressing things, he thought. Along with everything else I don’t have time for. I’m searching for the…

— Henning Mankell

“Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.”

— Muriel Barbery

“He imagined his past gone, along with his future. Death was the understanding of the immediate present: that there is finally nothing else.”

— Anne Rice

“When the phone comes up in his hand, he has thought out this death of his ahead of time all by himself. For a…

— Joseph McElroy