Jim Butcher Quotes

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.

When you attend a funeral, It is sad to think that sooner o' Later those you love will do the same for you. And you may have thought it tragic, Not to mention other adjec- Tives, to think of all the weeping they will do. (But don't you worry.

the very fact of the death of someone close to them aroused in all who heard about it, as always, a feeling of delight that he had died and they hadn't.

We understand death only after it has placed its hands on someone we love.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life.

Death is hacking away at my address book and party lists.

Anna Deavere Smith's new one-woman show bills itself as being about health care, but the truth is that 'Let Me Down Easy' is mostly about the grimmer subject of death and dying.

Death is a fearful thing.

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.

People live, people die. It's always hard when it's a member of your family.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

When anyone dies, it's sad.

You don't get dead and there not be consequences.

Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.

I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished - and all of us will some day meet it face to face.