Quotes To Remember

||Chapter Seven|| The one with the final destination.

theme: the oh-so dandy death.

1. ''Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.'' -Mark Twain

2. “I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.” -Woody Allen

3. “Unbeing dead isn't being alive.” -E.E. Cummings

4. “I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” -Mark Twain

5. “When he shall die,

Take him and cut him out in little stars,

And he will make the face of heaven so fine

That all the world will be in love with night

And pay no worship to the garish sun.” -William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

6. “It kills me sometimes, how people die.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

7. “It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.” -Lemony Snicket, Horseradish

8. “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

9. “Life is for the living.

Death is for the dead.

Let life be like music. 

And death a note unsaid.” -Langston Hughes, The Collected Poems

10. “Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again.

"So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking...” -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

11. “If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?” -Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

12. “I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” -Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love

13. “If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?” -Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

14. “Even death has a heart.” -Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

15. “A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"

"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.” -Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

16. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” -Mark Twain

17. “I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.” -John Green, Looking for Alaska

18. “My dear,

Find what you love and let it kill you.

Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.

Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.

For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.

~ Falsely yours.” -Charles Bukowski

19. “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” -J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

20. “I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"

"You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix