“ There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead. Anthon St. Maarten
“ Maybe my dissertation really had been as brilliant as he claimed, the truth was I remember almost nothing about it; the intellectual leaps I made when I was young were a distant memory to me, and now… Michel Houellebecq
“ If you have few days to live your life, what will be your passion for last days? Lailah Gifty Akita
“ I often think about this, that is, I imagine to myself that here is Vera, dead, totally motionless, lying on the table, in a coffin... and I too, of course can no longer live. But for some reason this… Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
“ My father was a doctor,' she says, 'a very kind man. He died in the early '70s, relatively young.' She taps the cigarette packet on the table. 'Of lung cancer.''Oh.''But the thing about that is,' she… Anna Funder
“ What if I just want to die?""Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life. Megan Bostic
“ Death breached the silence first. 'Mortals are always calling for me,' he said, 'Especially mortals whose suffering is very great, and especially mortals whose suffering is of their own making, and es… J. Aleksandr Wootton