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“To be, or not to be, that is the Question” William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The breaking of so great a thing should make a greater crack: the round world should have shook lions into civil streets, and citizens to their dens.” William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.” George Orwell, Animal Farm

“To die hating them, that was freedom.” George Orwell, 1984

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace.” Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children, is increased with tales, so is the other.” Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon

“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Ah, if he could only die temporarily!” Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“While you do not know life, how can you know about death?” Confucius, Analects

“Our life is made by the death of others.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.” William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.” Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.” Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Death was a friend, and sleep was death’s brother.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.” George Orwell, 1984

“Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand, blood and revenge are hammering in my head.” William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!” William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“The thing to me worse than death was the betrayal. I could conceive death.” Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only man in the world.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.” William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.” Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.” William Shakespeare, Richard III

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

“The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography

“Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief and I tried very hard to die but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you?” Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

“So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Francois Rabelais. He was this poet. And his last words were 'I go to seek a Great Perhaps.' That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.” John Green, Looking for Alaska

“He that dies pays all debts.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. ” Albert Camus, The Stranger

“the only thing I know is everything you love will die.” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

“I wanted to know that he would be okay if I died. I wanted to not be a grenade, to not be a malevolent force in the lives of people I loved.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“She entered a kind of euphoric state, as if death had freed her from the fear of dying.” Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Death is a fearful thing.” William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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