"Death actually never kills you, time does."

Mortality, Death, Time, End, Life

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"Death actually never kills you, time does."

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"Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

Mortality, Life, Memory, Death, Understanding

"In one way, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely that reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me."

Christopher Hitchens, American Author

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"Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

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"We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?"

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Mortality, Hope, Death, Faith, Grave

"The moment one is born, the 'saw starts cutting'. People consider it as death only when the wood breaks in two pieces [during funeral]. But it was being cut from the very beginning."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Mortality, Life, Death, Truth, Time

"It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Mortality, Death, Fear, Loss, Joy

"But what really happens after you are dead - that is what I want to know?I cannot tell you Renisenb. You should ask a priest these questions.He would just give me the usual answers. I want to know.We shall none of us know until we are dead ourselves."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

Mortality, Death, Truth, Mystery, Faith

"O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike!"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Mortality, Death, Fate, Life, Hope

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"They hate you not because of what you have done but because of who you are; you are different from who they are, and you are occupying the ground they want for themselves."

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"When a man marries, it's proof he can't govern his life. He needs a governess."

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"Truth is like beauty, it lies in the mind of the beholder."

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"She has the care of a mother, the love of a sister, a prostitute in bed. Who is she?"

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"Don't go into the business of pleasing people. You can't please everybody. Simply do your best at what you do."

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