There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.

Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).

I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.

No thought is born in me that does not bear the image of death.

Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.

If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.

To learn to die is to learn to live. Death is the giver of life.

The police made sure he wasn’t dead. Then they killed him.

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

The only advantage of knowledge is that it can justify suffering.

You'll stay with me?'Until the very end,' said James.

Wherever you look there is so much loss and folly to contemplate.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.