History Quotes / DontFearTheReaper

-->-- '''Death''' to Azrael, ''Literature/ReaperMan''

-->--Creator/LindsayEllis on Death as he appears in ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' episode "Nothing in the Dark".

-->-- The Guardians of the Dead taking the place of [[TheGrimReaper Hood, God of Death]] in the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen''

-> I am Hades. Most inevitable of the gods. Only those who have wasted life need fear me -- for the underworld holds no terror for the innocent, wise, and brave."

-->''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/8793565/chapters/20159878 How the Light Gets In]]''

-->-- Laughing Bull ''Anime/CowboyBebop''

-->-- '''Death''' to Azrael, ''Discworld/ReaperMan''

->Seriously? Death goes "ding ding ding?"
-->-- '''Yusuke Urameshi''' upon meeting [[TheGrimReaper Botan]], ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''

-->--Creator/LindsayEllis on Death as he appears in ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "Nothing in the Dark.

-->--[[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Lindsay Ellis]] on Death as he appears in ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "Nothing in the Dark.

-->--[[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick Lindsay Ellis]] on Death in [[Series/TheTwilightZone "Nothing in the Dark"]].

-->-- '''[[Music/BlueOysterCult Blue Öyster Cult]]''', [[TropeNamer "Don't Fear the Reaper"]]

->i waited for death to wrap his\\

->Seasons don't fear the reaper
->Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain
->(We can be like they are)

->Come on baby
->(Don't fear the reaper)
->Baby take my hand
->(Don't fear the reaper)
-->-'''''[[Music/BlueOysterCult Blue Öyster Cult]]''''', ''Don't Fear the Reaper''

->Because I could not stop for Death,
->He kindly stopped for me;
->The carriage held but just ourselves
->And Immortality.
-->-'''Creator/EmilyDickinson''', ''Because I could not stop for Death''

->[[AC:"Oh Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the [[TitleDrop Reaper Man?]]"]]
-->-'''Death to Azrael,''' ''Discworld/ReaperMan''

-->-'''''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'''''

-> ''"Seriously? Death goes 'ding ding ding'?"''
--> -- Yusuke Urameshi upon meeting [[TheGrimReaper Botan]], ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''

-> ''"I'll be counting on you next time something happens!"''
-> ''"Try not to give me too much more work to do, okay?"''
-> ''"What? But that's why we're friends!"''
-> ''"She's friends... with Death...!?"''
--> -- Hiyoko Tousaka, Death, and an astonished Sakuya, ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend''

-> ''"The Black Rabbit serves Lord Frith. He does no more than his appointed task."''
--> ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown''.

-> Not a bad chap when you get to know him (and sooner or later, everyone gets to know him).
--> ''Creator/TerryPratchett''

-> ''You see? Even Death has a heart.''
--> Death, ''Literature/TheBookThief''

->''i waited for death to wrap his''
->''frail hands around my neck and''
->''feed me to the unknown''
->''but he just took my hand, fingers''
->''laced between my own''
->''and smiled''
-->-- The poem "[[http://dearspineless.deviantart.com/art/we-shouldn-t-be-so-afraid-of-death-422477276 we shouldn't be so afraid of death]]" by '''dearspineless'''

->''"Death gods are not as heartless as movies depict us as. It can be difficult. Because I know that every time I make a mortal friend, I will have to guide them through the halls of the dead in the end and say goodbye."''
-->--Anubis, ''Roleplay/WeAreOurAvatars''

->The nature of his line of work,
->Led some to think he was a jerk.
->And though he was considered grim,
->I found myself grow ''[sic]'' fond of him.

--> Death ''Literature/TheBookThief''

--> Death ''Literature/TheBookThief

-->-'''Emily Dickinson''', ''Because I could not stop for Death''

-> ''"Seriously? Death goes 'ding ding ding'?"

-->-'''''ProblemSleuth'''''

[[AC:"Oh Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the [[TitleDrop Reaper Man?]]"]]

[[AC: DEATH has been waiting for you. He has poured you some TEA.]]
-->-''ProblemSleuth''