Death Quote by Alain de Botton — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.”

“I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals, feasts, shrines, pilgrimages, communal meals and illustrated manuscripts of the faiths.”

“The start receives such disproportionate attention because it isn't deemed to be just one phase among many; for the Romantic, it contains in a concentrated form everything significant about love as a whole. Which is why, in so many love stories, there is simply nothing else for the narrator to do with a couple after they have triumphed over a range of initial obstacles other than to consign them to an ill-defined contented future--or kill them off. What we typically call love is only the start of love.”

“The most boring and unproductive question one can ask of any religion is whether or not it is true.”

“A good half of the art of living is resilience.”

“We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all.”

“Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”

“She died--this was the way she died;”

“Mr. Ludefance? This is Barnett Hooks. We’re a law firm over here in Tallahassee. I’ve been trying to reach you for over a week as I’m representing a client who is interested in hiring you.”

“I love you," he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die.”

“In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.”