"So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die.""Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur's line of vision. "What's this swit..."
- Douglas Adams
"The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat a..."
- Suzanne Collins
"We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything."
- Terry Pratchett
"Men die. It's practically what they're for."
- Catherynne M. Valente
"Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging into a flowerbed means digging into bones."
- M. Jones
"His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he ceased to feel. There was nothing further in which to believe that made the prospect..."
- Ashim Shanker
"I hope I died honorably. I have a great deal to atone for. - Eler Nersal"
- Lynda Williams
"Life is warped. I'm just in sync."
- Margaret Atwood
"Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift."
- Milan Kundera
"I hammered on the Poes' front door like Alaric on the gates of Rome. Poe said that a gaudy figure of speech was a silk cravat around a dirty neck. He didn't say whether the truth lay in the plain thin..."
- Norman Lock