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There are stages we all go through when dealing with character deaths. Grief. Anger. Denial. Laughter. Coulson. -- Jack Lewis Baillot
Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking. -- Chuck Palahniuk
There is no better place to plot the death of a character than when you're miserable and working out. -- Brad Meltzer
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. -- Horatio Nelson
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. -- John Berger
I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative. -- Margot Kidder
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? -- Chuck Palahniuk
What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away. -- Nick Saban
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death. -- Michel Houellebecq
If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is. -- Denis Leary
The same characters that keep reappearing, bigger than life, find their own integrity in doing what they do the way they do it, even if it causes their own deaths. -- Robert Aldrich
I'm interested in characters who should know better, who know they should give up, move on, accept life as it is, with all its constraints - life, death, time - but don't. -- Alice McDermott
To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character. -- Thomas Jane
Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate. -- John Nelson Darby
Whether I'm writing a novel about a guy mourning the death of his father or whether I'm writing a show about people killing each other, you want to hear characters speak and be funny and witty. -- Jonathan Tropper
In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character. -- Andrew Coyle Bradley
Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die! -- Luigi Pirandello
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My characters who come back from death are worse for wear. In some ways, they're not even the same characters anymore. The body may be moving, but some aspect of the spirit is changed or transformed, and they've lost something. -- George R. R. Martin
The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept - and I'm sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter' series led to similar tears. -- Paul Bloom
In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. -- Terry Pratchett
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death. -- Edward Gibbon
The character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection. -- Thomas Chalmers
I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience. -- Scott Cohen
Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying. - Jacques -- Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

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