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“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” - 1623

“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“To be, or not to be, that is the Question” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“Ah, if he could only die temporarily!” Mark Twain, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” - 1876

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

“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” - 1887

“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“To die hating them, that was freedom.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“The thing to me worse than death was the betrayal. I could conceive death.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“Only the dead stay 17 for ever.” Haruki Murakami, “Norwegian Wood” - 1987

“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Invisible Monsters” - 1999

“After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone” - 1997

“By dying young, I shall escape great sufferings. I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.” Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre” - 16 October 1847

“As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“Indeed without death men would scarcely philosophise.” Arthur Schopenhauer, “The World as Will and Representation” - 1819

“Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.” Honoré de Balzac, “Letters of Two Brides” - 1841

“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” - 1930

“Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?” Woody Allen, “Getting Even” - 1971

“The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” - 2007

“Man dies, but glory lives!” Walter Scott, “Ivanhoe” - 1820

“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Diary” - 2003

“Our life is made by the death of others.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“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” - 1951

“It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

“And do you know, there's less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there's more peace.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“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” - 1726

“Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.” George Orwell, “Animal Farm” - 1945

“The world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” - 1600

“I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“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” - 2005

“I may die young . . . But at least I'll die smart.” John Green, “Looking for Alaska” - 2005

“If life must not be taken too seriously—then so neither must death.” Samuel Butler, “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” - 1912

“Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.” Neil Gaiman, “Anansi Boys” - 2005

“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” - 1623

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.” J. M. Barrie, “Peter Pan” - 1904

“Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all; all shall die.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 2” - 1600

“Let my country die for me.” James Joyce, “Ulysses” - 1922

“Therefore it is that man dies in despair while the Spirit dies in ecstasy.” Honoré de Balzac, “Séraphîta” - 1834

“Two words would comprehend my future—death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

“the only thing I know is everything you love will die.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Survivor” - 1999

“Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death.” Anne Frank, “The Diary of a Young Girl” - 1947

“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” - 1954

“Everybody was legally alive now. Before they got their names and numbers in that book, they were missing in action and probably dead.” Kurt Vonnegut, “Slaughterhouse-Five” - 1969

“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” - 1597

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.” Charles Dickens, “Our Mutual Friend” - 1865

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.” Terry Pratchett, “Small Gods” - 1992

“I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea” - 1938

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