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“To be, or not to be, that is the Question” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“I must be gone and live, or stay and die.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“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
“Our life is made by the death of others.” Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci
“While you do not know life, how can you know about death?” Confucius, Analects
“Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“And do you know, there's less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there's more peace.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“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
“The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.” George Orwell, 1984
“The dead will always be dead, but we have to go on living.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“It must be added that the men who most respect embryonic life are the same ones who do not hesitate to send adults to death in war.” Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex
“What the count said was true—the most curious spectacle in life is that of death.” Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.” Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
“Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.” Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
“One Life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us forevermore!” Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History
“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
“For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin', and death be all that we can rightly depend on.” Bram Stoker, Dracula
“My life is not some Funeral Grade bit of compost that will rot tomorrow and be outlived by my name in an obituary. ” Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
“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
“the first step to eternal life is you have to die.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.” George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“To be or not to be, is NOT the question!” George MacDonald, Lilith
“Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!” George MacDonald, Lilith
“If life must not be taken too seriously—then so neither must death.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
“Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.” Yann Martel, Life of Pi
“I would be even more alone in death than in life.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
“For death is gain to him whose life, like mine, Is full of misery.” Sophocles, Antigone
“As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.” John Green, Paper Towns
“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
“Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, Seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, That, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me; Love has conducted us unto one death; Caina waiteth him who quenched our life!” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“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
“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
“All her life, she never saw a dead person. There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Those whom life does not cure death will.” Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
“Everything that happens before Death is what counts.” Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Men’s lives have meaning, not their deaths.” George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
“I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.” Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
“Without Christ there is no access to the Father, but futile rambling; no truth, but hypocrisy; no life, but eternal death.” Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians
“The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury, and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of death.” William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
“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
“Immortals become mortals, mortals become immortals; they live in each other's death and die in each other's life.” Heraclitus, On Nature
“once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

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