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Life without literary studies is death. — Seneca The Younger

Literature sustains life because it captures death in its forward march. Clickety-clickety-clack, the wheels go round and round ... — Chris Campanioni

When the star dies,
Its eye closes; tired of watching,
It flies back to its first bright dream. — Dejan Stojanovic

Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift. — Milan Kundera

Death swallows death. — Dejan Stojanovic

"Literature" is written material that, 100 years after the death of the author, is forced upon high school students. — Tom Clancy

The poem is at last between two persons instead of two pages. In all modesty, I confess that it may be the death of literature as we know it. — Frank O'Hara

Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. — Lawrence Clark Powell

I'm sick of the images trapped in my head
I'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow. — Jules Renard

I don't fear death
I fear dying before I've read Dickens end to end. — Amy Smith

Every thought about death takes a moment of life away. — Dejan Stojanovic

His spirit chaunged house and wente ther,
As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher. — Geoffrey Chaucer

On the Day of Judgment , life and death are not determined by the world but by God's wisdom and law — John Bunyan

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive. — Seneca The Younger

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't. — Christopher Hitchens

If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another. — Dejan Stojanovic

In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death. — Holly Black

Our mind is our soul and we do not have any other soul. The concept of soul has been invented by ourselves to ease our fear of death. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone. — Virginia Woolf

Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. — Thomas McGuane

Death is something we shy away from, except in literature or television, when we tend to stare right at it. — Cath Crowley

Sleep is death enjoyed. — Friedrich Hebbel

Kill me, or you are a murderer. — Franz Kafka

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind. — John Green

In greatness, life and death merge. — Dejan Stojanovic

He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die. — Cormac McCarthy

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth. — Adam Johnson

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. — Charles Frahman

Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do. — Don DeLillo

History belongs to the victors, legends to the people, fantasy to literature. Only death is certain. — Peter Esterhazy

Death is the Inevitable Price We Must Pay. — Ellen J. Barrier

Life into death
Life's other shape,
No rupture,
Only crossing. — Dejan Stojanovic

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people — Heinrich Heine

They are both spectacular,
Life and death. — Dejan Stojanovic

And that was the point of children, thought Caroline Meddey: to bind us to the earth and to the present, to distract us from death. — Amanda Coplin