Death Quote by Nicholson Baker — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.”

“Poetry is prose in slow motion.”

“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

“Achieving the state of SABLE is not, as many people who live with these knitters believe, a reason to stop buying yarn, but for the knitter it is an indication to write a will, bequeathing the stash to an appropriate heir.”

“We do not sleep,” said Aya. “These bodies do not require it. All they need is food to provide them with energy. Sleep is not needed.”

“Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away, leaving her there, never to look back. But my friend Tom, my ever-faithful good friend Tom said, pointing down the hall away from Cec's room, 'Life's that way. Let's go home.'”

“Why, yes, the mo­ment you’re born, your death comes in­to the world with you, and it’s your death that takes you out.”

“There are only two things worse then an empty canvas: death and taxes.”