Neal Shusterman Quotes

The right time to die is never exactly now.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

Life is better than death. But death comes eventually to everyone. It is something which many in their prime may prefer not to think about. But at 89, I see no point in avoiding the question. What concerns me is: How do I go? Will the end comes swiftly, with a stroke in one of the coronary arteries? Or will it be a stroke in the mind that lays me out in bed for months, semi-comatose? Of the two, I prefer the quick one.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

Better to live or die, once and for all, than die by inches.

If a doctor assists you in your suicide, it is called manslaughter, while if a tobacco company does, it is called commerce.

I think dying is the ultimate high...

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

I don't mind pointing out some of the failings of old age, because we are all headed in that direction, unless of course we take our own lives before we become a burden. I'm not advocating suicide, oh wait, I guess I am.

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

There's a difference between the world ending tomorrow and just drinking and drugging yourself to death.

I often ask people if they would like to give their organs when they pass on, and they say "Well, I'm not so sure, I don't know." And I said, "Well, would you accept one if you needed one?" "Well, yeah, sure." And I say "Well, there you go - where do you get them from?".

I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.

Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.

Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die.

Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.

After all dying is one of the most profound and difficult experiences we have.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float towards his end. He sees it quite clearly, and it fills him with (the word will not go away) despair. The blood of life is leaving his body and despair is taking its place, despair that is like a gas, odourless, tasteless, without nourishment. You breathe it in, your limbs relax, you cease to care, even at the moment when the steel touches your throat.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

I was afraid I was goin to die and then I was afraid I wasnt.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.