How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Unforgiven.
Quote #4
WILL: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. You take away all he's got, and all he's ever gonna have.
Death is the absolute end of everything. Everything one has achieved and will ever amount is suddenly and absolutely, taken away at the moment of death. Will, strangely, seems not to mind taking everything away from somebody.
Quote #5
WILL: We all have it coming, kid.
You can always count on Will to say something profound. He doesn't say much, but when he talks it counts. If one thing is certain, it's that we're all equal—we're all going to die no matter what.
Quote #6
THE KID: You want it, keep it. I'm never gonna use it again…I won't kill nobody no more. I ain't like you Will…Go on keep it. All of it. It's yours…I guess I'd rather be blind and ragged than dead.
After his first kill, the Kid is beside himself. Everything is in perspective, and he's suddenly afraid of a death in a way that he doesn't seem to have been previously. Death, for the Kid, is the worst possible scenario.