Don DeLillo Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Dying was just an extended version of Ash Wednesday.

  Don DeLillo

  Death, Dying, Ashes

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

• When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.

  Don DeLillo

  Death, Thinking, Years

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.115, Pan Macmillan

• Isn't death the boundary we need?

  Don DeLillo

  Death, Needs, Boundaries

  Don DeLillo (1999). “White Noise”, p.186, Penguin

• The dead have a presence.

  Don DeLillo

  Death

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

• You feel sorry for yourself. You think you're missing something and you don't know what it is. You're lonely inside your life. You have a job and a family and a fully executed will, already, at your age, because the whole point is to die prepared, die legal, with all the papers signed. Die liquid, so they can convert to cash.

  Don DeLillo

  Death, Lonely, Jobs

  Don DeLillo (2015). “Underworld: Picador Classic”, p.167, Pan Macmillan

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