"Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die."

Mortality, Life, Tragedy, Death

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"Life is a tragedy, one way or another. What is certain is that you die."

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"Your life on earth is but for a few days and before you know it, you are no more."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness."

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

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"It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?"

Marty Rubin, American Author

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"Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever."

Thomm Quackenbush, American Author

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"The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

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"Will be there any spinoff?A lesson?Person of Interest have a lessons... first we all die alone as a second when you start understanding the somebody... it comes a moment when the cards end up and he dies."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"And then his noise falls completely silent-And he stops struggling-And looking right into my eyes-He dies.My Todd dies."

Patrick Ness, American Author

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"Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;This sensible warm motion to becomeA kneaded clod; and the delighted spiritTo bathe in fiery floods, or to resideIn thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,And blown with restless violence round aboutThe pendent world; or to be worse than worstOf those that lawless and incertain thoughtImagine howling: 'tis too horrible!The weariest and most loathed worldly lifeThat age, ache, penury and imprisonmentCan lay on nature is a paradiseTo what we fear of death."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone."

Kiera Cass, American Novelist

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"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"

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"I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here."

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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."

Want

"I gave up on the big screen. The Witching Hour was at Warner Bros. for 10 years and it just didn't work out."

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"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds."

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"It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others."

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