"Dead. Never been that before. Not even once."

Mortality, Death, Absurdity, Humor, Existence

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"Dead. Never been that before. Not even once."

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"There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Mortality, Death, Travel, Regret, Life

"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

Mortality, Denial, Death, Light, Acceptance

"Who worries for dying? If I close my eyes tonight, I will either dream, or not, or my eyes will open and I will be here again. And if none of those happen, and I do not wake? Who worries for dying?"

Roman Payne, American Novelist

Mortality, Death, Calm, Worry, Life

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

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Mortality, Time, Truth, Life

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

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Mortality, Life, Death, Illusion, Truth

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

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

Mortality, Fame, Death, Reality, Humanity

"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Mortality, Death, Regret, Reflection

"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

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"Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand, pen mighter than the sword and so forth."

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"If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gough, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong."

Creation

"I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats."

Reality

"Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic."

Books

"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books."

Reading

"Never underestimate the capacity for romance, no matter what the circumstances."

Romance

"I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder...I'm an average man...with a truly extraordinary wife."

Contentment

"Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time."

Literature

"I don't need you to agree with me," she said quietly." I'll go away happy with a little bit of doubt. Doubt is good. It's an emotion we can build on. Perhaps if we feed it with curiosity it will blossom into something useful, like suspicion - and action."

Curiosity

"Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading."

Time