Death Quote by William S. Burroughs — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. … Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life…”

“There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.”

“A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.”

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

“when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.”

“The first and most important thing an individual can do is to become an individual again, decontrol himself, train himself as to what is going on and win back as much independent ground for himself as possible”

“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”

“We're reaching for death”

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”

“Glory is the sunshine of the dead”

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”

“The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.”