“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“It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.”
— Victor Hugo“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“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
— Aristotle“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
— Henry Thomas Buckle“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“Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else.”
— Judy Garland“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.”
— George R.R. Martin“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”
— Emily Brontë“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. ”
— Pablo Picasso“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
— Albert Einstein“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
— Edgar Allan Poe“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche“The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.”
— Michel Houellebecq“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“My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.”
— Steve Maraboli“...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“Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.”
— Criss Jami“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“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity”
— T.S. Eliot“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“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“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“Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writersmystics, painters, troubadoursfor they teach us to see the world through different eyes.”
— Jacob Nordby“Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.”
— Steve Maraboli“When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you.”
— Walter Payton“... 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“And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make.”
— Paul McCartney“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“The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert“Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens”
— Tony DeLiso“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“Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.”
— Paul McCartney“It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death.”
— Thomas Mann“Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling”
— Tony DeLiso“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“My love is meatloaf flavored. I just wish my meatloaf was also meatloaf flavored.”
— Dora J. Arod“having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.”
— Charles Bukowski“Do you think we can be friends?” I asked.He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend.”
— Priya Ardis“I told you, he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. I like you.You don't know me, I say quickly.I want to, though.”
— Lauren Oliver“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“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
— Coco Chanel“Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.”
— Ruth Reichl“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
— Lao Tzu“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
— Antonio Porchia