Don DeLillo Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this. Computers will die. They're dying in their present form. They're just about dead as distinct units.

  Don DeLillo

  People, Dying, Culture

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.86, Pan Macmillan

• 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

• Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

  Don DeLillo

  Dying, Scandal

  Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.108, Pan Macmillan

• In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere.

  Don DeLillo

  Air, Cities, Dying

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.46, Pan Macmillan

• The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.

  Don DeLillo

  Dying, Want, Might

  "Anything Can Happen: Interviews with Contemporary American Novelists". Book by Tom LeClair, Larry McCaffery, perival.com. 1979.

• The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future.

  Don DeLillo

  Wise, Dying, Innocence

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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