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Quotes About Existence

Seventy years of life is nothing in front of a single day of death
~ Munia Khan
Death walks among us
~ Unknown
Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Everyone is terrified of death, as we spend our whole lives avoiding it.
~ Unknown
Vivo sin vivir en mí... muero porque no muero. (I live without really being alive... I die because I am not dying.)
~ Teresa of Avila
Nobody wants to believe that existence carries on without at least taking a stumble from their departure of this world.
~ Nenia Campbell, Terrorscape
We shall live to die once more.
~ Sandra Chami Kassis
Dying is an art.Like everything else, I do it exceptionally well.I do it so it feels like hell.I do it so it feels real.I guess you could say I have a call.
~ Sylvia Plath, Ariel
Death is part of who we are. It guidesus. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end
~ Christopher Paolini, Brisingr
Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.
~ Neil Gaiman, Brief Lives
Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.
~ Unknown
Cada suspiro es como un sorbo de vida del que uno se deshace.
~ Unknown
The day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
~ Jean Cocteau
We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries.
~ Unknown
The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.
~ Unknown
How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.
~ Rachel Ward, Numbers
Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else.Thank you, Confucious.
~ James Patterson
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until...
~ Unknown
And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?
~ Franz Wright, God's Silence
Ich werde stehen und warten.Ich werde müde werden.Ich werde nicht einschlafen.Ich werde sterben.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Everything but a life can be replaced.
~ Marty Rubin
Just being alive should make you late for everything. In case you've never noticed, the dead are always on time.
~ Unknown
YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.That's what being alive is all about.
~ Terry Pratchett, Sourcery