Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38

Only death dignifies our sufferings in the eyes of others.

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

Funerals often make us want sex—it’s one in the eye for death.

The tragedy is not to die, but to be wasted.

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

I aint dead, I aint done, I ain't scared, I aint run, no matter what, no matter what, Still I stand

Death is an absolute marvel.

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.

O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...

When I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.

In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

Let no man despise the oracles of books! A book is a dead man, a sort of mummy, embowelled and embalmed, but that once had flesh and motion and a boundless variety of determinations and actions.

Sure I arn't a cabbage, that if you pull it out of the ground it must die.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

Any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man

...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

You never really knew a man, he said, until you saw him die

Death like style is the removal of rubbish.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

What draws the reader to the novel is the hope of warming his shivering life with a death he reads about