Life and death Quotes (383 Quotes)

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  “Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.”

  Charles Bukowski

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  “Too weird to live, too rare to die!”

  Hunter S. Thompson

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  “Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.”

  Suzanne Collins

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  “The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.”

  Socrates

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  “Life is but a dream for the dead.”

  Gerard Way

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  “You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”

  Aberjhani

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  “After all, how often do we get a second chance?”

  Jay Asher

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  “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.”

  Alice Sebold

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  “All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses,
  And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.”

  Walt Whitman

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  “I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.”

  Anne Frank

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  “Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.”

  Christopher Pike

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  “On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.”

  Henry David Thoreau

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  “I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.”

  Libba Bray

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  “The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.”

  Blaise Pascal

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  “I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead.”

  Woody Allen

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  “Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.”

  Gabriel Bá

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  “All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru”

  Masashi Kishimoto

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  “And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom”

  Hayley Williams

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  “Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?”

  Kōbō Abe

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  “The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.”

  Ted Dekker

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  “I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.”

  Gore Vidal

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  “Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people while they're still alive! That way, they can know that we're thinking about them! I always tell people when I'm thinking about them, or that I thought about them, or that I have been thinking about them and it almost always scares them away, but so what, I am practicing the art of life and if that is frightening to them then maybe they need to start living while they're still alive!”

  C. JoyBell C.

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• “Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . .
  . . . (quoting an obituary) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings”

  J.R.R. Tolkien

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  “I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.”

  Haruki Murakami

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  “Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.”

  Now Is Good

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