I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.

The worst thing about death is that you once were, and now you are not.

The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous. The language of society is conformity; the language of the creative individual is freedom. Life will continue to be a hell as long as people who make up the world shut their eyes to reality.

It's a breath you took too late.
It's a death that's worse than fate.

The mode of death is sadder than death itself.

When Olivier had been taken away Gamache had sat back down and stared at the sack. what could be worse than Chaos, Despair, War?

What would even the Mountain flee from? Gamache had given it a lot of thought.

What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And Gamache thought he had the answer.

Regret.

Regret for things said, for things done, and not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.

Finally, when he was alone, the Chief Inspector had opened the sack and looking inside had realize he'd been wrong. The worst thing of all wasn't regret.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.

To accept a little death is worse than death itself.

There are fates worse than death," he will tell you. "One fate worse than death is accidentally killing your own men. Another fate worse than death is going home alive when twenty-two others don't.

Death is very, very terminal.

O pior da morte é que antes estavas e agora não estás.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.