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“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

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“The singers make much of kings who die valiantly in battle, but your life is worth more than a song. To me at least, who gave it to you.” George R. R. Martin, “A Storm of Swords” - 2000

“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” - 1925

“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

“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Let us eat and drink neither forgetting nor remembering death unduly. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy and the less we think about it the better.” Samuel Butler, “The Note-Books of Samuel Butler” - 1912

“Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. ” Albert Camus, “The Stranger” - 1942

“She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.” Gustave Flaubert, “Madame Bovary” - 1856

“If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die a death in service of a greater good, you know?” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.” William Shakespeare, “Henry IV, Part 2” - 1600

“And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.” Edgar Allan Poe, “The Masque of the Red Death” - 1842

“Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world.” Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist” - 1988

“Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“Thus with a kiss I die.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

“A grain in the balance may determine which individuals shall live and which shall die—which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.” Charles Darwin, “On The Origin of Species” - 1859

“Death was too definite an object to be wished for, or avoided.” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” - 1850

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