13,737 Quotes About Death

This guy was a humorless bag of nothing but.

When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.

Many marriages would have been laid to rest a long time ago, if they were not on a life-support machine called other people’s opinions and/or expectations.

People talk about survival. What they mean is killing the other guy.

I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.

As Luxenberg's work has only recently been published we must await its scholarly assessment before we can pass any judgements. But if his analysis is correct then suicide bombers, or rather prospective martyrs, would do well to abandon their culture of death, and instead concentrate on getting laid 72 times in this world, unless of course they would really prefer chilled or white raisins, according to their taste, in the next.

I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.

In other words, they appeal to the state for protection, but the state is precisely that from which they require protection. To be protected from violence by the nation-state is to be exposed to the violence wielded by the nation-state, so to rely on the nation-state for protection from violence is precisely to exchange one potential violence for another. There may, indeed, be few other choices.

I like to think she hates my guts a little less every hour.