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

“She was still clutching the book. She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.”

“If they killed him tonight, at least he would die alive.”

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

“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”

“***HERE IS A SMALL FACT***”

“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.”

“Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.”

“Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!”

“How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?”

“Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like leaves. They were swept up as memories, and burned. History owns them. These men were petrified in both senses of the word: paralyzed and turned to stone. Their refusal to express feeling killed them. Anachronistic men. Those poor, poor boys.”

“I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.”