"Death, I've dreamed of it, I've desired it, but what real happiness can come from it?"

Jonathan Anthony Burkett, American Author

Mortality, Death, Desire, Happiness, Reflection

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"Death, I've dreamed of it, I've desired it, but what real happiness can come from it?"

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

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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."

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"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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"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

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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

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"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."

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"It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die."

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"We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion."

Competition

"I can only be me not thee, as far as the eyes can see!"

Individuality

"You know my name, not my story. You've heard what I've done, but not what I've been through."

Understanding

"Faith doesn't get you around problems in life and relationships, it gets you through it."

Perseverance

"It's a struggle but you have to keep going."

Perseverance

"Saving money won't get us rich. You have to spend it to get it."

Success

"I just want you to know that where ever life takes you, I'll always be happy for you as long as its something that makes you happy because that's all that really makes me happy. Why? I'm just listening to my heart and all it's telling me is to understand. Which in a way I can but then again I can't. I'm use to it all though because not everyone lives a fair life if you know what I mean."

Selflessness

"There's a difference between driving and texting. When your driving your eyes have to be open and on the road watching the cars around you, road signs, and traffic lights. Along with your mind on the road and destination. Which means you are multitasking. When your texting your eyes are on your cell phone screen and key pad. Along with your mind on what your going to say next. So how can you do both? Please stop!"

Safety

"Do something with your one life, instead of following others. While just watching your one life pass you by."

Individuality

"Forget living a long life cause I don't see that happening with me living a life of misery, neglect, and pain. So I just want to die happy."

Tragedy