"Mort" Quotes
A bumbling young man becomes an apprentice to Death and discovers the complexities and absurdities of life and the afterlife.
fantasy | 243 pages | Published in 1987
Quotes
Don't think of it as dying, said Death. Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush.
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...
If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.
If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will always put their power first.
There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.
Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.
It is possible to learn all the time.
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
The only things you can be sure of in life are death and taxes.
