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Quotes About Existence

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando
I have good hope that there is something after death.
~ Plato
age is nothing but death that is conscious.
~ Ouida
If death turned out to be a lack of being rather than a lack of consciousness, well, then, that sucked.
~ Linda Howard
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Death is death. Whether you die smiling or with tears in your eyes, it amounts to the same thing. A whole heap of nothing
~ Justin Somper
All true stories end in death.
~ Matthew Woodring Stover
This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.
~ Jack Abbott
I keep thinking how young can you die from old age
~ Drake
I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death; I am not on his pay-roll.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
~ Charles Bukowski
Death is no different whined at than withstood.
~ Philip Larkin
Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.
~ Walt Whitman
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
~ Wendell Berry
I am part of the cycle, rebirth death, rebirth death, rebirth death.
~ George Harrison
He is always becoming, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
~ Jacques Ellul
Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.
~ Seneca the Younger
Death is not the end of who we are. It is only a brief pause in the endless cycle of our lives. Each of us is a spirit that cannot die.
~ Frederick Lenz
In each thing there is an insinuation of death. Stillness, silence, serenity are all apprenticeships.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Death is usually an all-or-nothing thing!
~ Dan Brown
Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?
~ Eugene Ionesco