Peter Milligan Quotes

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

I thought, 'If I'm going to die, I'm going to videotape it.' So I got out my little video recorder and was taping goodbyes to my family.

The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.

Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.

It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations.

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.

The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses.

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.

I'm going up to my room now, where I may die.

And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: "I joked about every prominent man of my time, but I never met a man I didn't like." I am so proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come to my grave you will find me sitting there, proudly reading it.

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

The end of a life is always vivifying.

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.

No one escapes from life alive.

I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.

The meaning of life is that it stops.