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Quotes About Death

He killed himself for wanting to live.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
~ Laurence Ferlinghetti
I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
~ David Blaine
Life isn't just fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. -William Goldman
~ Ann Brashares
Life can only be enjoyed as one acquires a true perspective of life and death and of the real purpose of life.
~ Spiros Zodhiates
It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live.
~ Ayn Rand
I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
~ Boris Pasternak
There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.
~ Robinson Jeffers
Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?
~ Saint Augustine
The two real problems in life are boredom and death.
~ Saul Bellow
My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.
~ Shalom Auslander
They say when you're about to die, you see your entire life flash before your eyes. They lied. The only thing Nick Gautier could see flashing was Kyrian Hunter's vampire fangs.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The earthly meaning of eternal life was death, and she refused to die.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
For even bold natures flee, whenever they see Hades close to life.
~ Sophocles
Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.
~ Tao Lin
People believe mistakenly, that with death comes atonement, when in reality, life is for atonement and Death is for Judgment.
~ Thomas Perez
This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.
~ Tryon Edwards
When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.
~ Victor Hugo
So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.
~ Victoria Jackson
Dying is no big deal. The least of us will manage that. Living is the trick.
~ Walter Smith
We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.
~ Wayne Dyer
For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.
~ Bram Stoker
Life is short, death is forever
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.
~ Donald Barthelme