“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“there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space.”
— Charles Bukowski“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
— Victor Hugo“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
— George R.R. Martin“A girl calls and asks, Does it hurt very much to die?Well, sweetheart, I tell her, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”
— Chuck Palahniuk“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
— Edgar Allan Poe“Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
— Dylan Thomas“The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.”
— Michel Houellebecq“...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.”
— John Boyne“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged out to sea by the undertow- that, in short, we are all going.”
— John Green“Death twitches my ear;'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming.”
— Virgil“My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.”
— Alice Sebold“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana“Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades- except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we've fallen to our graves.”
— Lee Argus“... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.”
— Lisa Genova“To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.”
— Criss Jami“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
— Anais Nin“Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest. It's one bloody fray after another.”
— Shaun David Hutchinson“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
— Thomas Mann“regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.”
— Charles Bukowski“It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.”
— Heather Brewer“having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.”
— Charles Bukowski“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
— E. E. Cummings“Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.”
— Langston Hughes“Even death has a heart.”
— Markus Zusak“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
— Lao Tzu“Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.”
— Ernest Hemingway“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
— Antonio Porchia“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
— Franz Kafka“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”
— John Green“Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
— H. Rider Haggard“I saw the world from the stars' point of view, and it looked unbearably lonely.”
— Shaun David Hutchinson“Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.”
— Marcus Aurelius“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”
— Anne Sexton“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
— Osamu Dazai“YOU FEAR TO DIE?It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break...”
— Terry Pratchett“Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.”
— José Saramago“She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.”
— Cecelia Ahern“Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.”
— Roger Zelazny“No one escapes from life alive.”
— Michael Crichton“Not forever does the bulbul singIn balmy shades of bowers,Not forever lasts the springNor ever blossom the flowers.Not forever reigneth joy,Sets the sun on days of bliss,Friendships not forever last,They know not life, who know not this.”
— Khushwant Singh“I always knew, on some level, that I wouldn't live long. It's simply not written in my stars.”
— Marie Lu“the worst thing, he told me,is bitterness, people end up sobitter.”
— Charles Bukowski“I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all.”
— Susan Beth Pfeffer“The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.”
— Leo Babauta“Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched...”
— J.K. Rowling“Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.”
— Veronica Roth“Until death it is all life”
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.”
— Ray Bradbury“And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.”
— Leo Tolstoy