Life expectancy Quote by Terry Pratchett

“On the street, men appeared to me like mad ghosts, old skeletons out of joint, whose bones, badly strung together, were falling to the…

— Octave Mirbeau

“He saw it for the first time: on the day he died he would be wearing unmatching socks, there would be unanswered e-mails, and…

— Ian McEwan

“He was dropped under a streetlamp, the only person left on the bus. A patch of mauled light. Gritty pavement, scarred with a million…

— Rupert Thomson

“He lived in a huge, ridiculous, doodad-covered, trash-filled two-story horror of a house that stumbled, staggered, and dribbled right up to the edge of…

— John Bellairs

“In the corridor the dying man had at last ceased his thrashing. Blood no longer spurted from his neck but simply oozed out onto…

— Tom Wood

“And I wonder if any of the road-kill creatures actually wanted to die and threw themselves beneath the speeding wheels. A lethargic swallow who…

— Sara Baume

“Poor living corpse, closed in a dead man’s tomb!”

— Hugh Howey

“In the meantime, the place became dilapidated, the wind whistled through the cracked walls, the rain fell through the broken roof, the weeds choked…

— Charles Dickens

“He was going to die soon, you knew when you saw those eyes. There was no sign of life in his flesh, just the…

— Haruki Murakami

“There was something very odd about the carpet this morning… More hedgehogs? Many more hedgehogs? Positively a lake of hedgehogs?”

— Robin McKinley

“They’re always telling folk how much better it’s going to be when they’re dead. We tell them it could be pretty good right here…

— Terry Pratchett

“Mort was getting interested in the rock. It had curly shells in it, relics of the early days of the world when the Creator…

— Terry Pratchett