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Who knows but life be that which men call death,
And death what men call life? — Euripides

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

Life is what you make it, death is how you take it.
-Nate Spears — Nate Spears

Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal. — John Fowles

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

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

There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for. — R. Alan Woods

What is your secret? What could you possibly know, more than 80 years after you death, that someone doesn't want us to find out? — Jennifer Walkup

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

What is death but the opportunity for a new beginning? — Tami Egonu

What is there to imagine with a gun?" asked Papa . . . .
"Something dead," Papa said more quietly. "That's what there is to imagine with a gun. — Paula Fox

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

I do fear death. But what I actually fear is not dying. I mean, true, it will be sad. But I know that there is a better place waiting for me. — Mattie Stepanek

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

Bye-bye. I'm off on a journey to the real world. 'Cause within this meta-reality what's real is this - my death. — Natsuo Kirino

What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death? — Jessica Savitch

I wonder which is worse-the death, not knowing what comes after, or the wedding, when you think you know, but you're wrong. — Sharyn McCrumb

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

If the Bible is right about what happens to us after death, it means that more than 250 000 people every day go either to Heaven or to Hell. — Randy Alcorn

Do what you love and own who you are.
Time is precious ad death is real.
So is Art: It defies them both — Galadrielle Allman

To fight for each minute is to
fight for what is possible within
yourself,
so that your life and your death
will not be like
theirs. — Charles Bukowski

What is life without honor? Degradation is worse than death. — Stonewall Jackson

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft. — William Shakespeare

The truth is that we simply do not know what happens after death. — Sam Harris

When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is. — Dallas Willard

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

I'm what happens after death, which is writing. — Kathy Acker

Death is the mother of beauty," said Henry. "And what is beauty?" "Terror. — Donna Tartt

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

I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It's the living. Those of us left behind. — Jael McHenry

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

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

Life before birth is a dream, life after death is another dream. What comes between is only a mirage of the dreams. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

When love becomes what Christianity is all about, we can make no sense of Jesus's death and resurrection. — Stanley Hauerwas

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors. — Lewis H. Lapham

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

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death. — Terry Goodkind

At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it. — Yasmin Mogahed

Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you. — Lara Logan

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

Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end. — Joanne Harris

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death? — Frank Herbert

O fool, what else is sleep but chill death's likeness? — Ovid

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. — Dave Barry

[T]here is nothing worse than doing what you don't want to do, day after day, to little renummeration or applause. It's the death of your soul. — Adam Davies

Knowing how to die is knowing how to live. What is death anyway? It's the outcome of life. — Jeanne Moreau

What is across there? Lykos said.
Death, whatever that is. Said Calidus. — John Gwynne

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

The interesting thing about reflecting on your death is that it reawakens you to what's truest about life. — Robin S. Sharma

Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live. — Albert Camus

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful. — Jeanne Moreau

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot. — Idries Shah

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

Eternally repeating that cycle of death and rebirth, an existence such as this ... truly, mine is what may be called a 'perfect existence'! — SZA

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

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can. — Donald Hall

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live. — Norman Cousins

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

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

The magazine at the health food store said, Stop Aging! Isn't that what death is for? Trust me, we're all gonna stop aging ... — Dana Gould

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence. — Mark Twain

What is life? It departs covertly. Like a thief Death took him. — John Gunther

My big concern is me and what do I do now until the time of my death. That is valid. That is useful. That is beautiful. That is creative. — Maurice Sendak

The fact of dying for what is strong robs death of its bitterness - and at the same time of all its value. — Simone Weil

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

There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. Oh yes, he is. — Cormac McCarthy

We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant. — Albert Einstein

What is your life? It is like a vapor, which is dispersed by a breath of wind, and is no more. — Alfonso Maria De Liguori

For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept — Sigmund Brouwer

The question is not why should we change but rather what sort of death wish are we promoting by refusing to change? — William Badke

The bird is gone, and in what meadow does it now sing? — Philip K. Dick

We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this. — Anne Lamott

I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness. — Aaron Huey

What is death, after all, but a cessation of involvement with the world, a departure from those you love, and those who love you? — Anthony Doerr

I am not worried about dying, what I am worried about is not living — Saji Ijiyemi

What is birthday, but a celebration of death. — Aphole

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

Only the dying know what real loneliness is. — Marty Rubin

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

What is any of this to us? Time is endless and ours. Love and Death are only the games we play in it. — Tanith Lee

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning. — John Banville

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we've never met. — David Levithan

That's what death is, Danny thought: wanting to talk to someone and not being able to. — Jennifer Egan

What is life to Spirit, is death to the ego. — Vivian Amis

What is blood but the wine of life? — Vera Nazarian

What is there to say, finally, except that pain is bad and pleasure good, life all, death nothing. — Gore Vidal

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery — Poul Anderson

Death comes to all. But life comes first. Cherish it. Death is the destination. But the journey, that is life. That is what matters. — Brandon Sanderson

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love. — George Eliot

Don't fear god, Don't worry about death; What is good is easy to get, and What is terrible is easy to endure — Epicurus