Quotes / Life Will Kill You

Life'll kill ya - that's what I said.
Life'll kill ya, and then you'll be dead
Life'll find ya, wherever you go.
Requiescat in pace, that's all she wrote.

—Warren Zevon, "Life'll Kill Ya"

Y'know, it's funny... we went off to war never looking to come back, but it's the real world I couldn't survive.

—Tracey, Firefly

"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."

— Q, Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Q Who"

Satou... That's about enough of this. We don't have a right to get involved in anything as dramatic as a suicide incident. No matter how depressed we are or how much we suffer, all we're gonna do is come right back to our idiotic everyday lives. And even if we can't return to them, we'll only die idiotically somewhere. A dramatic death just isn't fitting for us.

— Kaoru Yamazaki talking Tatsuhiro Satou out of committing suicide, Welcome to the NHK

“When someone leaves your life, those exits are not made equal. Some are beautiful and poetic and satisfying. Others are abrupt and unfair. But most are just unremarkable, unintentional, and clumsy.”

— Griffin McElroy, The Adventure Zone: Balance, "The Stolen Century - Chapter Seven"

On his wedding night, Attila suffered a nosebleed and choked to death. For a man who had boasted 'where my horse has trodden, no grass grows', it was a curiously anti-climactic death.

— Father Armand, Age of Empires II

Some people die for a good cause,
Some people die for a bad cause,
Most people die just because.

— Anon.

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