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

“How do you tell if something's alive? You check for breathing.”

“Could she smell my breath? Could she hear my cursed circular heart beat revolving like the crime it is in my deathly chest?”

“The scribbled signature black, onto the blinding global white, onto the thick soupy red.”

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

“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”

“A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH”

“Love doesn’t die with death. Love is like liquid; when it pours out, it seeps into others’ lives. Love changes form and shape. Love gets into everything. Death doesn’t conquer all; love does. Love wins every single time. Love wins by lasting through death. Love wins by loving more, loving again, loving without fear.”

“What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.”

“How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?”

“When you divide death by life you find a circle.”

“I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.”

“Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.”