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Life seems to be a system that eats itself to death, and in which victory equals defeat. — Alan W. Watts

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. — Toni Morrison

A world of death is a world of stagnation, without the change that makes it worthwhile. What you call uncertainty, I call life itself. — Graham McNeill

Communication is the life line of any relationship. Without it, the relationship will starve itself to death. — Elizabeth Bourgeret

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death. — Nobuyoshi Araki

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself? — David Mazzucchelli

Losing you're co-remember meant losing the memory itself. — John Green

Written words, he told me, were forever. Stories stretched beyond death, like time itself, ever changing us, but themselves, unchanged. — Elise Forier Edie

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself. — Robin McKinley

Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself. — Soren Kierkegaard

Maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us
— Mary Oliver

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. — Polly Toynbee

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people. — Theodor Adorno

The truth in death can only be found in the dying itself. — Matthew Culberson

There was a horrible, erratic thumping in my chest, as if a large bird was trapped inside my ribcage and beating itself to death. — Donna Tartt

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. — Lyman Beecher

Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself! — William Shakespeare

Even death itself is made wretched by terror and fear. — Bryant McGill

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. — John Berger

The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor. — Bryant McGill

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself. — African Spir

The fear of death is more to be feared, than death itself. — Publilius Syrus

There is nothing after death, and death itself is nothing. — Seneca The Younger

Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack. — Christopher Babson

When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

The prospect of death in autumn, she said, was irrelevant next to its happy recognition of its participation in the life of the tree itself. — David Guterson

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. — James Anthony Froude

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared. — Sun Tzu

The sweltering darkness and vast weight of the surrounding silence seemed as eternal as death itself. — Terry Goodkind

The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding ... as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration. — Carl Jung

What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself? — Mahatma Gandhi

The "result" of life is death, so when you create, the importance is not on the result but on the process of creating in and of itself. — Dean Cavanagh

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death. — Alison Bechdel

Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb. — Seneca The Younger

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself. — Bryant H. McGill

There are issues of war and peace. And then, there are issues of life and death like this one that are no less morally compelling than war itself. — John F. Kerry

death wound itself around her bones like a piece of red ribbon. — Amanda Lovelace

The law itself does not produce sin; it finds sin in us. It offers life to us; but we, being evil, derive nothing but death from it. Hence, — John Calvin

I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen. — Elie Wiesel

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red. — Molly Caldwell Crosby

Good taste was out of place in the company of death, death itself was the essence of bad taste. — Toni Morrison

I rose as from the death that wipes out the sadness of life, and then dies itself in the new morrow. — George MacDonald

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Living is cold and technical without you, a death mask of itself. — Zelda Fitzgerald

Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death. — Leo Tolstoy

If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other. — Philippa Gregory

This wasn't any mere song and dance; here was a bold, blaring declaration howling itself into the empty face of death. — Chuck Palahniuk

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. — Huey P. Newton

The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends. — John Cassian

The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death. — Jeffrey Archer

I wanted my eternity in carbon molecules, in being part of the trees, the sky, air itself — Ruth Ahmed

Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death. — Thomas Paine

His conscience, like a sunburnt scorpion, was stinging itself to death. — Edward St. Aubyn

Faces don't freeze like that unless pushed to breaking, where death itself becomes the kindness. — Karen Marie Moning

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. — Thomas Browne

Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

When you realize what you are now, the issue of death will solve itself. — Adyashanti

Fear of death is worse than death itself... — Gosho Aoyama

Daniel's mind is a scorpion stinging itself to death. — Scott Spencer

Your survival is imperative. With your death would come great loss. The supernatural world would be unable to recover itself for a millennium. — Amanda Carlson

Time itself is one more name for death. — C.S. Lewis

Death is profoundly meaningful. Discovering what it is in itself we will know the secret of life. — Samael Aun Weor

His crime had been death itself, and he had been sentenced with life. — Brian Robert Smith

The only way through death is death itself. — Christin Lore Weber

Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself. — Zeena Schreck

Something begins in order to end: an adventure doesn't let itself be extended it achieves significance only through its death. — Jean-Paul Sartre

They are somewhere safe, or they are dead. And death is a sort of safety in itself. — Joe Hart

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror. — Edmund Burke

Even death itself sometimes fails to bring the dignity and serenity which one would fain associate with old age. — Jane Addams

The death of hope and love is far worse than death itself. — C.J. Anderson

And the hermit's spirit detaches itself, ever so gently, and begins its lonely passage upward, to find its final resting place among the stars. — Eleanor Catton

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time
life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death. — Holly Lisle

It matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death. — Rebecca West

Life itself is contradictory. Only death is consistent. — Vera Caspary

There is something about Death
Like love itself! — Edgar Lee Masters

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose

She didn't fear death itself, welcoming release from her long struggle between mind and body. — Mary Jane Moffat

You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different. — Michael Gungor

During those last weeks of the Bishop's life he thought very little about death; it was the Past he was leaving. The future would take care of itself. — Willa Cather

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself. — Mahatma Gandhi

Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects for others. In fact, it is probably long overdue. — Christina Engela

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself. — Charles Dickens

The fear of death is far greater than the death itself. But the fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all! — The Undertaker

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death. — John Piper

Last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself — Betty Smith

But the child's faith never admits defeat, and it would snatch at the mantle of death itself to turn him back. — Rabindranath Tagore

I wasn't particularly afraid of death itself. As Shakespeare said, die this year and you don't have to die the next. — Haruki Murakami

The antidote to death was and always would be the heat and fury of life itself. — David Hewson

When you meditate deeply, you will see beyond life and death. You will see that you can't die and you can't be reborn. You are existence itself. — Frederick Lenz

Jody noticed that the kid was focused on the breasts, which were defying gravity, and apparently death itself, by standing there at complete attention — Christopher Moore

When God went to the cross he made even death itself a place of hope. — Robert Barron

The scene isn't one of perpetual death but of life circulating within itself. — Deepak Chopra

The Death Star was gone. Had the Empire itself fallen with it? — Claudia Gray

Madness doesn't get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off. — Benjamin R. Smith

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. — Havelock Ellis

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself. — Kenneth E. Boulding

Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death. — Silas Weir Mitchell

Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death. — Anthony Liccione

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself. — Bruce Springsteen