Eoin Colfer Quotes

Do not seek death. Death will find you.

You only die once, but you will be dead for a very long time.

I'm one year away from 70 and I've had a good run. I really believe I'm okay.

I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.'

Why, I am about doing very well, for I am preparing myself, sir, for a place where hardly any majors, and very few Lieutenant-Generals go. God save us, why should there be such a bustle about the taking off of an old grey head that cannot get up three steps without two men to support it?

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.

Since the beginning of the world, a prayer is a prayer and a curse is a curse-- no matter the people-- no matter the language-- Man has given a thousand different namesto his god, but look into the face of each one-- long enough-- hard enough-- You will find one truth.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

I don't believe in happy endings but I believe in happy journeys.

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

And Father said, “There are no happy endings.” “Right!” cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. “Death is horrible, final, and frequently premature,” Coach Bob declared. “So what?” my father said. “Right!” cried Iowa Bob. “That’s the point: So what?” Thus the family maxim was that an unhappy ending did not undermine a rich and energetic life. This was based on the belief that there were no happy endings.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

No one escapes from life alive.

Let the dead bury the dead, your time will come.

Every shot has its commission, d'ye see? We must all die at one time, as the saying is.

Death, thou shalt die.

death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more - will you know about the act of death.

All truths wait in all things.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

There are remedies for all things but death.