Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

Sometimes the dead are more alive than the living. And they can kill the living.

Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.

Why do dying people never shed tears?

Even death has a heart.

I do not know why the dead do not come back to life. Perhaps death is so wonderful, in ways we cannot comprehend, that they prefer it over and above their friends and loved ones, although I am inclined to doubt that be the case.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

The worst day ever was when I found out my grandfather was going to die.

I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it.

I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

I don't want to hear about my death.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me.

I envy the dead.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

I've had various people close to me die, and I don't necessarily find the idea of death purely depressing.

Death always seems to be around me.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

I don't want to die.

People live, people die. It's always hard when it's a member of your family.

I am scared of death.

When anyone dies, it's sad.