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And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death. — Ellen Hopkins

A painting is life and a painting is death ... the picture is our own legacy left by tomorrow's dead for tomorrow's living. — Ivan Albright

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige. — Aleister Crowley

The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty. — Carrie Ryan

A death without being a loss to anybody is the most unworthy death. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death? — Hildegard Knef

Sum of life; Birth, childhood, youth, adulthood, parenthood, old age and death. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void. — Jindrich Styrsky

Even he whose near ones have all died, one by one, is not alone-companionship comes for him from behind the screen of death. — Rabindranath Tagore

Life and death are something everyone will experience. It is living that only few will have embraced — Ricky Maye

People don't always value life, even their own, as much as they should. — Alex Potvin

I feel more alive now than I did while on earth. I am coming to terms with the notion that death is truly another word for opportunity. — H. L. Balcomb

The death rate for people who play it safe and for those who live boldly is the same. — Patti Digh

Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death. — Phil Lester

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death. — David Nicholls

The love of a half dead heart will keep you half alive — Munia Khan

When you choose to light, I weep, when you choose to darken, I weep — Triss

Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for. — Ross Thomas

Does this world feel like hell to you? Of course it does, because it is. — Naoyuki Ochiai

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer. — Eugene Ionesco

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things. — John Steinbeck

You're not just getting old, you're getting closer to your death; and you don't want to miss anything. — J. Limbu

Two days after your death, in a dream you text me many times. I read the first of them. ME! And so are the living comforted. — Marion Coutts

Death can come slow. Death can come quick. If you've got one last breath, you better make the most of it. — A.H. Scott

I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't? — Charles Bukowski

Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship. — Bryant McGill

In this world and the hereafter, we should not be afraid of no one but ourselves. — Alireza Salehi Nejad

Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time. — William Faulkner

It is appointed for man to die once, Live life to the fullness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Living means constantly growing closer to death. Satisfaction only temporarily relieves hunger. Find the balance, and plant your feet. — Jackie Morse Kessler

Death is powerful. No one is immune. And it's the living who must make their peace with it, because the dead don't give a shit. — Liliana Hart

We should keep the dead before our eyes, and honor them as though still living — Confucius

One day you will be the only one in the room not living. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Only if we die, or are threatened with death, do we question and whine about how all this time we wasted the gift of living. — Cameron Jace

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day. — Frank Beddor

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

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. — Wendell Berry

you don't just stop living because you lose someone. You don't quit! — S.E. Hinton

When a true purpose refuses to breathe, it suffocates to its ebb and death! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The power of life and death lies in the use of the tongue. Be careful of your words. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The Macabray, the dance of the living and the dead, the dance with Death. — Neil Gaiman

Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living. — Bell Hooks

Death ... obliterates family resemblance as it does personality: there is no affinity between the living and the dead. — P.D. James

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and
what will perhaps make you wonder more
it takes the whole of life to learn how to die. — Seneca.

This world is made for the living, Dan. Death, and accepting death, is a part of life. — Karen McQuestion

When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.
This is the duality of loss. — Christina Rasmussen

Is this her death I'm looking at? Or her life? And which is worse? — Chris Priestley

We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped. — Heather Gudenkauf

The afterlife is one of death's best kept secrets. . . and I was living proof of that. — Ireland Gill

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. — Orson Scott Card

You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living. — Anne Fortier

Yes, it will all end one day; but today is worth living. — Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead. — Marisha Pessl

Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don't want to believe it. — Sharon Salzberg

In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on. — Dannion Brinkley

Freedom from the known is death, and then you are living. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Live with caution. Life is fragile. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town. — John Green

Death twitches my ear;
'Live,' he says...
'I'm coming. — Virgil

Living does not undo life. Death does not, either. Life and death are not either-or. — Eileen Wilks

If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction. — Jean De La Bruyere

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it. — Carroll Bryant

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Make every day count ... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when it'll be your last. — Solange Nicole

Nature is cruel. Isn't that right, Daddy? Every living thing has to die. And they're still beautiful. Now they'll stay that way. — Kate Morton

Live desired in the world, and die lamented. — Richard Sibbes

For me a corpse has a beauty and dignity which a living body could never hold ... there is a peace about death that soothes me. — John Christie

May every living soul know eternal rest exist. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is measured by - the ones left behind? Or his Faith? By Love? or by the people aside you? Or it has no meaning at all? — Aman Jassal

Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146) — Julia Cameron

Look: each moment is a cradle and a casket: may all life and all death seem strange to you. — Marcel Schwob

A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living. — Chuck Palahniuk

The rest of us become narrow and mean when we live falsely. I'm sick to death of living falsely. I've been doing it for years. — Sarah Waters

I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living. — F.K. Preston

Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece. — Bruce Springsteen

Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone. — Homer

Selfishness from earth to hereafter: Thy pray and struggle, same by thee. Because life committed selfishness in living with the Democracy. — Deh Gel

A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial. — James S.A. Corey

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead ... because they are dead. — Epicurus

We sit in silence, drinking hot chocolate and contemplating the act that death is a monstrous affront to the living and shouldn't be allowed. — Anna Maxted

Reasons never matter, once Death comes cold and bold and takes the living by the hand. You count up your dead, every one.. — Janet Morris

Death was a living creature. Death was a man tormented by his past. Death was once a human. — S.K.N. Hammerstone

For the gift of life, the only true thanks was in living fully, and facing death with honor. — Janet Morris

A decent life, even a short life, will always be far better than an exceptionally long life lived in ruin. — Steven J. Carroll

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead. — William Bradford

Death is most terrifying to those who have yet to live. — Dan Pearce

One must learn to live with the living before one can learn to live with the dead. — Irvin D. Yalom

I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Death had vanished from the streets of America, thought Shadow; now it happened in hospital rooms and in ambulances. We must not startle the living, — Neil Gaiman

For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it. — Fay Weldon

Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living. — Daisy Whitney

The greatest distance in this World is not that between living and death, it is when I am just before you, and you don't know that I Love You. — Rabindranath Tagore

We are dust and to dust we shall return. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living. — Dean Koontz

We are quantity-obsessed: Instead of living for 30 pleasant years (and then calling it a life), most people would rather live for 80 unpleasant years. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid. — Langston Hughes

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied. — John Millington Synge

Subjecting other living things to pain, suffering, and death is the biggest fault in the human race — Zoe Rosenberg

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death. — Zane Grey