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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”

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

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

“I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Beautiful and Damned” - 1922

“Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.” William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet” - 1597

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

“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“Beware the ides of March.” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” - 1623

“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” - 1623

“Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” - 1623

“Friends, I owe more tears to this dead man than you shall see me pay.” William Shakespeare, “Julius Caesar” - 1623

“This feather stirs; she lives! If it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

“Done to death by slanderous tongues was the Hero that here lies.” William Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing” - 1600

“He that dies pays all debts.” William Shakespeare, “The Tempest” - 1623

“Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.” William Shakespeare, “As You Like It” - 1623

“We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the high Roman fashion, and make death proud to take us.” William Shakespeare, “Antony and Cleopatra” - 1623

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