„I'm glad to say I haven't found my style yet. I'd be bored to death.“

„How is it that I'd nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother's abdominal muscles a few minutes later?“

—  Meg Cabot, книга Shadowland

Источник: Shadowland

„I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I…“

—  David Foster Wallace, книга Infinite Jest

Источник: Infinite Jest

„I'd like to choose my own kind of death, for a change. I'm tired of being tormented to hell. Tired of it.“

—  Jim Jones founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple 1931 - 1978

" Death Tape http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/DeathTape/Q042fbi.html" FBI No. Q042 (18 November 1978)

„I am glad I have that artistic life in me... [I'm] a nobody in my field of art... I don't overestimate myself at all, and that's why I can't get that comfort from my work [landscape painting], which the Great [artists] have in their field of art. What else to say! 50 years after my death!! I laughed about it. Do you think they will remember me after only one year? [after her death] Dear heaven! No, that is really my least concern.“

—  Marie Bilders-van Bosse painter from the Netherlands 1837 - 1900

translation from the original Dutch: Fons Heijnsbroek
version in original Dutch (citaat uit een brief van Marie Bilders-van Bosse, in het Nederlands:) Ik ben blij dat ik dat artistieke leven in mij heb.. ..[ik ben] een prul op mijn gebied.. ..Ik overschat mijzelven niemendal, en daarom kan ik uit mijn werk [landschap-schilderen] niet dien troost putten die de Grooten op een gebied daaruit halen. En verder! 50 jaar na mijn dood!! Ik heb er om gelachen. Denk je dat ze één jaar daarna nog aan mij zullen denken? Lieve hemel! Nee, dat is mijn minste zorg.
Quote from Marie Bilders-van Bosse in her letter from The Hague, 29 March 1896, to her friend Cornelia M. Beaujon-van Foreest; as cited in Marie Bilders-van Bosse 1837-1900 – Een Leven voor Kunst en Vriendschap, Ingelies Vermeulen & Ton Pelkmans; Kontrast ( ISBN 978-90-78215-54-7), 2008, p. 29
Marie wrote her letter shortly after a quarrel with her friend Cornelia

„I want peace, and I will live and let live. I'm like any other man. I've been in this racket long enough to realize that a man in my game must take the breaks, the fortunes of war. I haven't had any peace of mind in years. Every minute I'm in danger of death.“

—  Al Capone American gangster 1899 - 1947

„My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.“

—  Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Cecil Graham, Act III
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

„I say the word death a lot … think of it as … primal relations, opposite, so if I say death a lot, it means I'm concerned with life. It's true.“

—  Edie Sedgwick Socialite, actress, model 1943 - 1971

Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)

„If
I'd ever grown prosperous like Shah Jahan was,
I'd not have waited for my beloved's death
before I erected a Taj Mahal.“

—  Suman Pokhrel Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist 1967

<span class="plainlinks"> The Tajmahal and my Love http://www.best-poems.net/love_poems/the_taj_mahal_amp_my_love.html/</span>
From Poetry

„Pain is good, I'd say, when it's incidental to Love. In 'I give up my life for my friend' it is my friend, not my death, that matters. And sometimes I needn't give up my life for him, I can live for him, and with him, and the power of the spirit is then equally manifested, I should think.“

—  E.M. Forster English novelist 1879 - 1970

Letter 285, to George Thomson, 1 August 1931
Selected Letters (1983-1985)

„Death. It doesn't have to be boring.“

—  Mary Roach, книга Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Источник: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

„Once I reveled in a destiny
like no other joy I'd known:
when the warden — reading
my death sentence — wept.“

—  José Martí Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader 1853 - 1895

I (Yo soy un hombre sincero) as translated by Esther Allen in José Martí : Selected Writings (2002), p. 273
Simple Verses (1891)

„I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.“

—  Jim Thompson, книга Pop. 1280

Источник: Pop. 1280

„No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.“

—  Cassandra Clare, книга Clockwork Princess

Источник: Clockwork Princess

„The moon was turned toward me,
Like a platter made of gold,
My death, it almost bored me,
So often was it told.“

—  Nick Cave Australian musician 1957

Song lyrics, Tender Prey (1988), Mercy

„Pete's my best friend, I was the best man at his wedding, I love that man to death. I'd take a bullet for him.“

—  Patrick Stump American musician 1984

AbsolutePunk.net

„My death is very near to me, and of this I am glad, for I desire to pursue the quest in other realms, as it has been promised to me that I shall do.“

—  H. Rider Haggard, книга Ayesha

Ayesha: The Return of She (1905), CHAPTER I, THE DOUBLE SIGN

„Death twitches my ear. "Live," he says. "I am coming."“

—  Virgil Ancient Roman poet -70 - -19 до н.э.

Appendix Virgiliana, Copa 38.
Attributed
Добавить примечание: (la) Mors aurem vellens, "vivite," ait, "venio."

„I'd love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera.

The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!“

—  Rick Riordan, книга The Lightning Thief

Источник: The Lightning Thief

„I'm sorry," Laila says, marveling at how every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.“

—  Khaled Hosseini, книга A Thousand Splendid Suns

Laila, p. 395
Вариант: Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
Источник: A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)