DEATH

People die. You lead them into battle, they’re going to die.
It doesn’t matter how ready you are or how smart you
are… war is about death. Needless, stupid death.

-Buffy, from "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" ('End of Days' Season 7, Episode 21)

It's interesting how people use that expression -- life and death. As if to imply that life is the opposite of death, but birth is the opposite of death. Life... has no opposite."

- Dawson´s Creek (Dawson Leery)

Buffy: I was just thinking about the life of a pumkin. Growing up in the sun, happily entwined with others, then someone comes along cuts you open and rips your guts out.
Sander: Okay, on that happy note.

-from "Buffy The Vampire Slayer"

Spike: The first was all business but the second, she had a touch of your style. She was cunning, resourceful... oh, did I mention? Hot. I could have danced all night with that one.
Buffy: You think we're dancing?

Spike:That's all we've ever done. And the thing about the dance is, you never get to stop. Every day you wake up, it's the same bloody question that haunts you: is today the day I die? Death is on your heels, baby, and sooner or later it's gonna catch you. And part of you wants it... not only to stop the fear and uncertainty, but because you're just a little bit in love with it. Death is your art. You make it with your hands, day after day. That final gasp. That look of peace. Part of you is desperate to know: What's it like? Where does it lead you? And now you see, that's the secret. Not the punch you didn't throw or the kicks you didn't land. Every Slayer... has a death wish. Even you.The only reason you've lasted as long as you have is you've got ties to the world... your mum, your brat kid sister, the Scoobies. They all tie you here but you're just putting off the inevitable. Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second- the second- that happens... (Spike claps his hands together inches from Buffy's face.) You know I'll be there. I'll slip in... have myself a real good day. Here endeth the lesson. I just wonder if you'll like it as much as she did.

Buffy: (cold) Get out of my sight. Now.
Spike: Oh... did I scare ya? You're the Slayer. Do something about it. Hit me. Come on. One good swing. You know you want to.
Buffy: I mean it.
Spike: So do I. Give it me good, Buffy. Do it!
Fool for Love - Episode 5.07 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Quote Page

 

The love scenes were filmed like murder scenes and the murder scenes were filmed like love scenes.

-Francois Truffaut, about film director Alfred Hitchcock's filming style

"Gonna scream his name?" (refering to sex)
Her eyes narrow. "I don't scream."
"You're using me."
"And it's not going both ways?" she asks sharply, grinding against me. "Give a dying woman a break. I need a body. You need a body. The rest of it's unimportant."

-"When Devils Tell the Truth", Jennifer Stoy


I'm not a big birthday fan generally speaking. I never really understood what there was to celebrate in another year passing, another 12 months closer to death. I suppose that sounds pretty morose. I guess I am a big, clumsy, morose oaf.

-"Eat it Too ", Rachel Anton

There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love.

-Don Juan in Don Juan DeMarco (1995)


Every single day, I wake up and I think of a reason not to do it. Every single day. And you know why I don't do it? This is going to make you laught. You know why I don't do it? The job. Doing the job. Now, that's the reason.

-Riggs to Murtaugh on suicide, LEATHAL WEAPON


What's wrong with dying? 'Cause life is too precious a gift. That's why. Because the first duty of life is to live.

-Stroud, BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ


No form ends until all the lives it has touched has ended, until all the good it has done is gone.

-Source Unknown


Death is that state in which one exhists only in the memories of others. Which is why there’s not an end, no good byes, just good memories.

-StarTrek: The Next Generation


I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments, he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life - anybody's life. My life.

-Deckard narrating about why Roy Batty an android spared his life after trying to kill him, BLADE RUNNER


You know what I do to squealers? I let 'em have it in the belly so they can roll around for a long time thinking it over.

-Udo to Rizzo, KISS OF DEATH


Wake up. Time to die.

-Leon to Deckard, BLADE RUNNER


Made me from dead. I love dead. Hate living.

-Monster, talking about his creator , THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN


He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a well remembered door.

-Heywood Brown


-Many men have tried.
They tried and failed?
-They tried and died!

-Dune


Maybe - but not today.

-Indiana, his responce to being told he'll be killed, INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE Of DOOM


Happens to me all the time.

-Indiana, on having people try and kill him, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE


Because I could not stop for Death
He kindly stopped for me
The Carriage held but just Ourselves
And Immortality.

-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) from 'Because I could not stop'


And yet it is true that murder is as natural to humans as making flint axes or suckling babies. And humans are noble, tragic, splendid beings around a core of barbarity.

-from the book, 'Neverness'


I have sent before you life and death,
blessing and cursing, therefore choose life,
that both thou and they seed may live.

-Deuteronomy, Chapter 30

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

- Michael Landon

I'm the one who has to die when its time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to...

- Jimi Hendrix

Suicide is not so much the wish to die, as it is the fear of living."

We are all visitors to this time. To this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe. To learn. To grow. To love. Then we return home.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

Death can fall upon your door like rain. You must live each moment, each day, each year as though it is your last.

Death is a challenge, it tells us not to waste time... it tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.