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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.” William Shakespeare, “Richard III” - 1597

“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

“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

“When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“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

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

“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“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” - 1952

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

“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

“Except you are a true sexton, books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!” George MacDonald, “Lilith” - 1895

“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

“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

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

“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

“Our life is made by the death of others.” 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

“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” - 1964

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

“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

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

“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

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

“Thus, in a sense, we are still all doomed, even if we keep away from black holes.” Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” - 1988

“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

“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” - 1597

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

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

“I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“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

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

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

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