"Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying."

Mortality, Death, Values, Materialism, Life

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"Silver's sweet and gold's our mother, but once you're dead they're worth less than that last shit you take as you lie dying."

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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Mortality, Life, Death, Uncertainty, Afterlife

"After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here."

Fakeer Ishavardas, Indian Spiritual Leader

Mortality, Death, Memory, Existence, Life

"Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?"

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Mortality, Authors, God, Popular, Death

"One can not come back from life."

Ljupka Cvetanova, Macedonian Author

Mortality, Life, Death, Journey, Existence

"Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Mortality, Death, Truth, Existence, Philosophy

"Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to be snatched from us! And no sooner is the danger past than we resume once more the same dull life in which none of those delights existed for us."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Mortality, Death, Life, Regret, Reflection

"Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Mortality, Light, Death, Loss, Regret

"But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

Mortality, Death, Hatred, Fear, Humanity

"Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Mortality, Death, Research, Life, Learning

"If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Mortality, Age, Time, Death, Stagnation

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"Strength to your arm, then."

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"Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?"

Wonder

"My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit."

Humor

"Lady Selyse was as tall as her husband, thin of body and thin of face, with prominent ears, a sharp nose, and the faintest hint of a mustache on her upper lip. She plucked it daily and cursed it regularly, yet it never failed to return. Her eyes were pale, her mouth stern, her voice a whip. She cracked it now."

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"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."

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"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."

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"There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so why fret about it?"

"After you die, a rare friend or family member may carry your memory throughout life. Most will forget you. As if you were never here."

"One can not come back from life."

"Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters."

"Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither."

"But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred."

"Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me."

"If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time."

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"My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it."

"Strength to your arm, then."

"Why would the stars want to look down on such as me?"

"My sister has mistaken me for a mushroom. She keeps me in the dark and feeds me shit."

"There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it."

"Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well."

"In this world the weak are the victims of the strong."

"Robb says the man died bravely, but Jon says he was afraid.""What do you think?" his father asked.Bran thought about it. "can a man still be brave if he's afraid?""That is the only time a man can be brave," his father told him."

"Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written."