Death Quote by Markus Zusak — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.”

“for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.”

“Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.”

“For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.”

“It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice.”

“There were heavy beams - planks of sun - falling randomly, wonderfully, onto the road. Clouds arched their backs to lok behind as they started again to move on. 'It's such a beautiful day,' he said, and his voice was in many pieces. A great day to die. A great day to die, like this.”

“The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.”

“You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.”

“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.”

“The oblivion fear is something else, fear that I won't be able to give anything in exchange for my life. If you don't live a life in service of a greater good, you've gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know? And I fear that I won't get either a life or a death that means anything.”

“Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past.”

“Pain can kill, all on its own: the body goes into shock and shuts down.”