… the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, ‘Possibly the gods exist, and possibly they do not. So why not believe in them in any case? If it’s all true you’ll go to a lovely place when you die, and if it isn’t then you’ve lost nothing, right?’ When he died he woke up in a circle of gods holding nasty-looking sticks and one of them said, ‘We’re going to show you what we think of Mr Clever Dick in these parts …’ (H)
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‘A famous last stand, sir?’ said Jackrum. He spat expertly into the fire in the tumbledown hearth. ‘To hell with them, sir. That’s just a way of dyin’ famous!’ (MR)
'He choked to death on a concubine.'
There was no sound but the hiss of snow in the fire and a number of people thinking fast. 'I think you mean cucumber,' said the bard. 'That's right, cucumber,' said Boy Willie. 'I've never been good at them long words.' 'Very important difference in a salad situation,' said Cohen. (LH) It was hard to deal with people when a tiny part of you saw them as a temporary collection of atoms that would not be around in another few decades. (TOT)
'Time goes so quickly when you're dead.' (CJ)
For Windle, in fact, death marked the first day of the rest of his life. (PP)
'... it takes a lifetime to learn how to die.' (N)
When a shark is coming at you, you are already dead, old Nawi had said, and since you were already dead, then anything was worth trying ... (N)
... a grandfather bird who had also decided he was dead and had pecked his foot to make sure, hopped away hurriedly. It didn't go far away, though, in case he died after all. In the grandfather bird's experience, everything died if you watched it for long enough. (N)
'... if you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.' (GO)
'What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn.' (LL)
'Are you a hunter?'
I LIKE TO THINK I AM A PICKER-UP OF UNCONSIDERED TRIFLES. (LL) He liked black. It went with anything. It went with everything, sooner or later. (SM)
Going and fighting when you're a real person isn't like folksongs! In real life you die! In folksongs you just have to remember to keep one finger in your ear and how to get to the next chorus! In real life no-one goes whack-fol-a-diddle-di-do-sing-too-rah-li-ay! (LL)
… on the whole, there are worse places to be buried than inside a lion. (SG)
‘You don’t think you’ve had enough, do you?’ he said.
I KNOW EXACTLY WHEN I’VE HAD ENOUGH. ‘Everyone says that, though.’ I KNOW WHEN EVERYONE’S HAD ENOUGH. (MP) The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die. (MP)
Look after the dead, said the priests, and the dead would look after you. After all, they were in the majority. (P)
Being dead didn’t mean you couldn’t get angry, oh no. (SC)
‘You’re dead, right?’ he said slowly.
‘Oh, yes. It’s one of those things one is pretty certain about.’ (JD) … the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt. (S)
‘Death doesn’t frighten me. It’s what comes after.’ (M)
‘You’re a lot luckier than most dead people, if you look at it objectively,’ he said. ‘You’re alive to enjoy it.’ (M)
‘I’m a firm believer in reincarnation. What would you like to come back as?’
‘I don’t want to go,’ said Rincewind firmly. (LF) Owing largely to inefficiency Rincewind had consistently failed to die at the right time, and if there’s one thing that Death does not like it is unpunctuality. (LF)
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