Death Quote by Peter S. Beagle — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe,”

“The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.”

“I am no king, and I am no lord,”

“I will miss it so,” she said beside him. “This hell of a place, I will miss it so much. This fat body, walking mud puddle, deceived by everything, this impossible, ruinous accident of a world, these people who would truly rather hurt one another than eat—oh, there is nothing, nothing, nothing I would not do to stay here ten minutes longer. Oh, I will leave claw marks, I will drag mountains and forests away under my fingernails when I am dragged off. Such a stupid way to feel. I will be all dirty from clutching at this stupid planet, and the gods will laugh at me.”

“You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever, and his mind shivered as his body had when he had wakened in the cold nights and thrust his hands between his thighs to keep warm. It will be a long night, he thought.”

“Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest.”

“Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”

“Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.”

“Not flowers—never flowers in Terrasen. Instead, they carried small stones to graves to mark their visits, to tell the dead that they still remembered.”

“I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.”

“Life is for the living.”