Addie: My father said that the reason for living is getting ready to stay dead.

it was as if he had swung outward at the end of a grape vine, over a ravine, and at the top of the swing had been caught in a prolonged instant of mesmerized gravity, weightless in time.

YaÅŸayan herhangi bir insan herhangi ölü bir insandan iyidir ama yaÅŸayan ya da ölü hiçbir insan baÅŸka bir yaÅŸayan ya da ölü insandan çok daha iyi deÄŸildir.

each look burdened with youth's immemorial obsession not with time's dragging weight which the old live with but with its fluidity: the bright heels of all the lost moments of fifteen and sixteen.

I dont suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You dont have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.

We can invest trifles with a tragic profundity, which is the world.

What is like chemistry? Well. Life. It's an outrageous farce, Oliver, with an incompetent producer...

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

the rhetorical formulas of objurgation with which I was to begin a page of inquiries of you: whether you were dead

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!