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Quotes About Existence

Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream.
~ Frederick Lenz
Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death.
~ Glen Duncan
We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive.
~ Gillian Anderson
Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth The best of all were never to be born.
~ Heinrich Heine
Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.
~ Thomas Browne
Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Man has created death.
~ William Butler Yeats
So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men.
~ William Shakespeare
I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.
~ Zadie Smith
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, Survivor
Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
The only sin is the sin of being born
~ Samuel Beckett
In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another.
~ Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...
~ William Shakespeare, Hamlet
And the camel driver had said, to die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Death only comes when a being has served its purpose. From a narrow perspective, that purpose may not be clear, but in the grand scheme of things, it makes perfect sense.
~ Charbel Tadros
Death must die so that life can be real!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Before we're born we've all of us been dead for millions of years...but we're always afraid of going back...
~ Unknown
We're truly alive when facing the prospect of our own mortality, if you convince yourself that you'll live forever, you'll never really have lived at all.
~ RyLee Harrison
Death has a life which kills everybody's life
~ Munia Khan