Markus Zusak Quotes

. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.

You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.

Why do dying people never shed tears?

When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

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

There were a few things going on then away from football, my nan and grandad passed away quite close together and, this might sound daft to anyone who doesn't have a dog, but my dog passed away and that hurt me.

When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.

Feeling funny in my mind, Lord I believe I'm fixing to die Well, I don't mind dying But I hate to leave my children crying Well, I look over yonder to that burying ground Look over yonder to that burying ground Sure seems lonesome, Lord, when the sun goes down

I have a natural tendency to feel well about the world, I suppose, one way or another. But then there is the problem of pain. There are things like [Abraham] Lincoln's beloved little boy dying.

No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never left mine as she finally said the words that numbed my soul. I'm dying, Landon.

It kills me sometimes, how people die.

It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying.

And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

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.

Your father has to die, better he dies in your arms.

I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

Do not weep for me.

I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.

You can't tell a 6-year-old your sister is going to die.