William T. Vollmann Quotes

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death.

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot.

After death there is nothing.

So," he asked. "How's death?" "Hard," she said. "It just keeps going.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

I know it sounds weird, but how bad, how hard can dying be?

To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you

Death. It doesn't have to be boring.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

I think of death as some delightful journey that I shall take when all my tasks are done.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

Death, that final evil, is one of the paths to eternity. Endless life in the conditions of our existence would be a nightmare.

With death comes a choice. And death is a choice.

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

Death is an eternal sleep.

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.

What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.