"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I've been learning how to die."

Mortality, Living, Death, Learning, Existence

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"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I've been learning how to 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

Mortality, Life, Days, Fleeting

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

Joseph Conrad, Polish Novelist

Mortality, Death, Madness, Life, Fear

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

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

Mortality, Country, Youth, Death, Aging

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

Marty Rubin, American Author

Mortality, Death, Existence, Question, Life

"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

Mortality, Adolescence, Life, Awareness

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

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Mortality, Focus, Clarity, Awareness

"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

Mortality, Death, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"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

Mortality, Death, Loss, Observation, Emotion

"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

Mortality, Death, Fear, Life, Truth

"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

Mortality, Moment, Loss, Time

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"There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet."

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"We both loved her. And you couldn't control who you loved, even if you wanted to."

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"She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget."

Appearance

"Her hair curled around her shoulders, long and loose, held back with glinting clips, in one those magical ways girls have of making their hair look like it is supposed to be up, but also sort of falling down."

Identity

"Her eyes were like the sea before a storm on the Carolina coast."

Beauty

"They really hate you, yes they do. They hate everyone, how 'bout you?"

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"You can read minds, and you didn't tell me? Link stared at me like he just found out I was the Silver Surfer. He rubbed his head nervously. 'Hey, man, all that stuff about Lena? I was yankin' your chain. He looked away. 'Are you doin' it now? You're doin' it, aren't you? Dude, get out of my head. He backed away from me and into the bookshelf.'I can't read your mind, you idiot."

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"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."

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