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We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes. — A.A. Gill

What? Why are you making the glee nose? The death of my world is funny? The final vengeance of my people? I will kill you. — Jackson Lanzing

If we aren't clear on what the Christian gospel is, then what is at stake is not merely a harmless misunderstanding but eternal life and death. — Gloria Furman

I guess what's most important is that we chose to live with our hearts open and to let our experiences show us the way towards our brightest days. — Brian Joyce

a man must learn to forgive - to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement. — Min Jin Lee

Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying. — Muriel Barbery

Everyone asks what the meaning of life is, but no one asks about the meaning of death. — Jo Nesbo

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death. — Jacqueline Cochran

One forgets the dead quite quickly; one doesn't wonder about the dead-what is he doing now, who is he with? — Graham Greene

What makes you so certain?"
"But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?"
"Yes!"
"Then you want death. — Stephen R. Lawhead

Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence. — Meredith Duran

Whether he is better or worse off there where he awoke after his death, disappointed, or found there what he expected we shall all soon learn. — Leo Tolstoy

Death, and darkness get you packing, Nothing now to man is lacking, All your triumphs now are ended, And what Adam marred, is mended. — Henry Vaughan

What if, tomorrow is your last day on earth? Think! — Lailah Gifty Akita

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death. — Ingrid Betancourt

The universe is more than thirteen billion years old. What is the value of a single kiss compared to that? — Shaun David Hutchinson

The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal

Death is what makes life an event. — Francis Ford Coppola

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape. — Blaise Pascal

You know what it is to laugh at death, Arutha. You'll never be the same man again. — Raymond E. Feist

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row. — Gary Bauer

That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it? — Gerard Manley Hopkins

Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It is always consoling to think of suicide;
it's what gets one through many a bad night. — Gillian Flynn

What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead? — William Butler Yeats

I cannot belong to a nation which permits such barbarities as stoning to death and amputation - I don't care what religion it is. — Wole Soyinka

In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain. — A.S. Byatt

If there is only nothingness after death, what's the point of this world? — Fuminori Nakamura

Until late in life, I was never quite good enough for my father, and I suppose that is part of what drives me even now, well after his death in 1992. — Richard Smalley

What I will tell you is that you cannot force yourself to mourn. Sometimes, the best way to honour the dead is to simply keep living. — Samantha Shannon

What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. — Charles Bukowski

It is better to risk starving to death than giving up on your dream. If you have given up on your dream, what's left? — Manoj Arora

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. — Albert Camus

The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to. — Anton Chekhov

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. — Gayle Forman

What is this slow blue dream of living,
and this fevered death by dreaming? — Aberjhani

And though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say. — Natalie Goldberg

To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil. — Arthur Schopenhauer

So, what you're basically telling me is death is boring but no worse than hanging out with family. — John Zakour

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living. — Arlo Guthrie

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death. — Elias Canetti

What then of death? Is not the taps of death but the first call to the reveille of eternal life?"8 — Michael Keane

The primary question about life after death is not whether it is a fact, but even if it is, what problems that really solves. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

You know what it is like to wake up in the middle of a bunch of corpses with a little girl in your arms scared to death?-Enyo — Carolina Cody Aldaz

The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden. — Umar

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison. — Jerry Garcia

Like the death of a crone in one twin bed as a child is born in the other. Have faith, old heart. What is living, anyway, but dying. — Sharon Olds

Suicide is a very permanent solution to what is usually a temporary problem. — Richard Winters

Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear. — Idowu Koyenikan

All that we have is to live what life brings. Die what death comes. — Mary Stewart

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not. — Epicurus

-What is the song about? I asked.
-Death, he answered with a laugh. But don't worry, nobody dies, it is the death of love. — Patti Smith

What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock. — Justin Cronin

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. — J.B. Priestley

What is Death, so it be but glorious? 'Tis a sunset; And mortals may be happy to resemble The Gods but in decay. — Lord Byron

Life... is a paradise to what we fear of death. — William Shakespeare

Suge is the boss of Death Row, the don, you understand? But im the underboss, the capo. That's my job to what's best for Death Row — Tupac Shakur

Life is a simple straight line between birth and death. The problem is you only realize it at the end of the line. — Debasish Mridha

Death is nothing, nor life either, for that matter. To die, to sleep, to pass into nothingness, what does it matter? Everything is an illusion. — Mata Hari

The rich eat life, the poor eat death; so what is the problem they ask? — Anthony Liccione

The connections we make in the course of a life
maybe that's what heaven is. — Fred Rogers

Was. What does was actually mean? The verb to be. Past tense of is. Does it mean that someone is no longer being? — Melina Marchetta

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear. — Epicurus

What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is ... It was death. I chose life. — Michael Cunningham

Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil.
Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie. — Patti Roberts

To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death. — Cynthia Ozick

I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should — Terry Pratchett

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death? — Alphonse De Lamartine

That is what we are. Death. — Charlaine Harris

What will survive of us is love.

- from A Writer — Philip Larkin

The lightning said to the oak tree: 'Stand aside, or take what is coming to you! — Idries Shah

The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now. — Leo Babauta

As in life, I know only what is, and in death what is turns out to be what was. You — Philip Roth

Death is, in fact, oddly pleasant, and certainly an improvement on what comes immediately before it. — E.A.A. Wilson

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding. — Socrates

What is death all about? What is life all about? — Livia Bitton-Jackson

What can I say? Death is messy. And she had it coming. — MaryJanice Davidson

Theseus: What is the crime for which you must pay by death?
Phaedra: My life. — Seneca.

Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?'
What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious quivering thing — Don DeLillo

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage. — Rosie Thomas

So this is it what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty. — Jennifer Egan

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End. — Kurt Vonnegut

No matter how strong you are, you don't just fight any fight at all! When you fight a wrong fight, you die a wrong death! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Death is what makes life possible. It's the balance, Meridian. There always has to be balance. — Amber Kizer

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture. — Chris Marker

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind. — Haruki Murakami

What is thy sentence then but speechless death. — William Shakespeare

And the question of Wester religion," Flattery said, "is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking? — Frank Herbert

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Theirs is the party that ... responds to the death of Americans at Benghazi by asking, What difference does it make? — Ted Cruz

What we refer to as 'death' is just a set of symptoms that have proven resistant to treatment. — Ralph Merkle

What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps a-field. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Death should be KNOWN. Known as a difficult mental, physical and emotional process, respected and feared for what it is. — Caitlin Doughty

Living without protecting what needs to be protected is the same as death ... — Hideaki Sorachi

It is always a matter, my darling,
Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I wished you before, but harder. — Richard Wilbur

Life is only fair for the Dead, who get what they want because they want nothing. — Isaac Marion

And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet? — John Donne

Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story. — Catherynne M Valente

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won't complain. — Jeanette Winterson

The scariest thing about death is not dying, it's the uncertainty of what happens after — Peyton J Glenn