Quotes About Death The Book Thief

#1. My friend Markus Zusak wrote a story from the point of view of death, 'The Book Thief.' I thought that's a great idea, where your omniscient narrator is death. I'm glad he had that idea because I wouldn't have been able to work so well with it.

Shaun Tan

#2. RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. It is increasingly important to be open-minded.

Tucker Carlson

#4. Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in their search for a befitting mind.

Mia Couto

#5. Jimmy: (in a low, resigned voice) They all want to scape from the pain of being alive. And, most of all, from love. ( ... ) It's no good to fool yourself about love. You can't fall into it like a soft job, without dirtying up your hands.

John Osborne

#6. I so love you! It is like my heart wants to be one with yours. I feel it melting inside of me, and like sunshine flowing out through cracks and streaming into your heart.

Earl Lovelace

#7. A girl's name ending in 'a' - that always suggests a 'C' cup.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. Milk money: cash, cows, and the death of the American dairy farm / Kirk Kardashian; foreword by Senator Bernie

Kirk Kardashian

#9. We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.

Brent Smith

#10. It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day
only the shadows were rather confusing.

C.S. Lewis

#11. I am haunted by human

Markus Zusak

#12. Where Hans Hubermann and Erik Vandenburg were ultimately united by music, Max and Liesel were held together by the quiet gathering of words.

Markus Zusak

#13. Jungle - so wise that everyone else would notice

Anonymous

#14. I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant ... I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.

Markus Zusak

#15. Victory tastes sweetest in the absence of haunting memories, Bult. Savor it.

Steven Erikson

#16. *** A SMALL ANNOUNCEMENT ***
ABOUT RUDY STEINER
He didn't deserve to die the way he did.

Markus Zusak

#17. When death captures me," the boy vowed, "he will feel my fist in his face." (31.26)

Markus Zusak

#18. Those with nothing but vengeance to live for are condemned by their own bitter victory.

Luke Scull

#19. There were heavy beams - planks of sun - falling randomly, wonderfully, onto the road. Clouds arched their backs to lok behind as they started again to move on. 'It's such a beautiful day,' he said, and his voice was in many pieces. A great day to die. A great day to die, like this.

Markus Zusak

#20. Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something they thought they had irretrievably lost.

Helen Exley

#21. Truth is felt in the heart. This is why your heart should always be your ultimate temple. Sitting inside on a blue altar, is you're where you find your conscience. This is where all conversations with God stream.

Suzy Kassem