Death Quote by Tim O'Brien — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.”

“That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.”

“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”

“A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.”

“It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. When you’re afraid, really afraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. You make close friends. You become part of a tribe and you share the same blood- you give it together, you take it together.”

“Makhluk kecil kembalilah. Dari tiada ke tiada. Berbahagialah dalam ketiadaanmu.”

“.. when all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.”

“Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was”

“Music links us humans, heart to heart...Across time and space, and life and death.”

“How cruel a life, that the sight of my dead wife means hope.”

“Death is inevitable passion is eternal”