150 Life And Death Quotes

In the tapestry of human existence, few themes resonate as profoundly as life and death. They are the twin pillars that define our journey, shaping our experiences, our beliefs, and our understanding of the universe. Quotes about life and death offer more than just words; they provide wisdom, comfort, and clarity through the ages. In this curated collection of the top 150 Life and Death Quotes, we delve into the thoughts of philosophers, writers, and thinkers who have grappled with these eternal mysteries. Whether you seek inspiration, solace, or reflection, these quotes will guide you through the most profound aspects of our shared human experience.

1. “Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.” - Charles Bukowski

2. “I’m not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don’t. Move on and move out.” - Gore Vidal

3. “I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.” - Robertson Davies

4. “The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence.” - Joan Baez

5. “I’m going to kill myself. I should go to Paris and jump off the Eiffel Tower. I’ll be dead. you know, in fact, if I get the Concorde, I could be dead three hours earlier, which would be perfect. Or wait a minute. It -- with the time change, I could be alive for six hours in New York but dead three hours in Paris. I could get things done, and I could also be dead.” - Woody Allen

6. “You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.” - C.S. Lewis

7. “Too weird to live, too rare to die!” - Hunter S. Thompson

8. “The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.” - Socrates

9. “The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.” - Blaise Pascal

10. “All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.” - Walt Whitman

11. “If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you’re going to have problems. You’ll be dead a lot.” - Dean Smith

12. “It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.” - James Boswell

13. “Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.” - Jess C. Scott

14. “My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.” - Alice Sebold

15. “The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered...We know that. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like. It's called being human. But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.” - Elizabeth Edwards

16. “I assure you; while I look like a ghost, I'm no spirit or demon. I'm nothing but a girl struggling to make her way in an intolerant world. I bleed, I love, and someday, I'll die.” - Leanna Renee Hieber

17. “You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.” - Aberjhani

18. “Student: I don't feel like living anymore. Teacher: If you don't feel like doing something then don't do. This means that in finding many ways how not to live your life, you have the possibility to discover how to live your life.” - Santosh Kalwar

19. “Ce matin, l'idée m'est venue pour la première fois que mon corps, ce fidèle compagnon, cet ami plus sûr, mieux connu de moi que mon âme, n'est qu'un monstre sournois qui finira par dévorer son maître.” - Marguerite Yourcenar

20. “Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?” - Kobo Abe

21. “It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.” - Virginia Woolf

22. “Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.” - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

23. “I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.” - Libba Bray

24. “Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.” - Gabriel Bá

25. “Krishna was once asked what was the most miraculous thing in all creation, and he replied, "That a man should wake each morning and believe deep in his heart that he will live forever, even though he knows that he is doomed.” - Christopher Pike

26. “We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.” - Michel de Montaigne

27. “Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it.” - John Steinbeck

28. “The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.” - Ted Dekker

29. “And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom” - Hayley Williams

30. “Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"Allie considered this. "Meaning?""Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads.""Or tails," suggested Allie."What are you talking about?" said Lief."Life and death.” - Neal Shusterman

31. “There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.” - George Santayana

32. “One life, One love, One breath, One people, One chance to make a difference. If we are not one in LIFE we surely will be one on DEATH.” - Tonny K. Brown

33. “Kaže da se svijet dijeli na ljude koji zamišljaju svoj sprovod i one koji ga ne zamišljaju, te da pametni i umjetnički nastrojeni ljudi spadaju u prvu kategoriju.” - Gayle Forman

34. “All things that have form eventually decay." -Orochimaru” - Masashi Kishimoto

35. “Two Songs For The World's End I Bombs ripen on the leafless tree under which the children play. And there my darling all alone dances in the spying day. I gave her nerves to feel her pain, I put her mortal beauty on. I taught her love that hate might find, its black work the easier done. I sent her out alone to play; and I must watch, and I must hear, how underneath the leafless tree, the children dance and sing with Fear. II Lighted by the rage of time where the blind and dying weep, in my shadow take your sleep, though wakeful I. Sleep unhearing while I pray - Should the red tent of the sky fall to fold your time away, wake to weep before you die. Die believing all is true that love your maker said to you Still believe that had you lived you would have found love, world, sight, sound, sorrow, beauty - all true. Grieve for death your moment - grieve. The world, the lover you must take, is the murderer you will meet. But if you die before you wake never think death sweet.” - Judith Wright

36. “If there is an afterlife, I want my soul intact. And then maybe I'll see you there."I smiled, somehow calm now that I was facing something inevitable. I was getting the good-bye I'd always wanted. - Nikki” - Brodi Ashton

37. “Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid.Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd.” - Oscar Wilde

38. “After all, how often do we get a second chance?” - Jay Asher

39. “No matter how many plans you make or how much in control you are, life is always winging it.” - Carroll Bryant

40. “When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.” - Adam Selzer

41. “Thinking, Garraty thought. That’s the day’s business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn’t matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you’re alone.” - Stephen King

42. “Follow your heart, Ithilnin," Albirich repeated. "Time is precious. Don't waste it living someone else's life.” - Jess C. Scott

43. “Life moved, as inconstant and fickle as Wind Baby, frolicking, sleeping, weeping, but never truly still. Never solid or finished. Always like water flowing from one place to the next. Seed and fruit. Rain and drought, everything traveled in a gigantic circle, an eternal process of becoming something new. But we rarely saw it. Humans tended to see only frozen moments, not the flow of things.” - Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear

44. “Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.''- 'Fine! That’s beautiful. But I wasn’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so let’s drink up and forget it. That’s more my idea.” - Eugene O'Neill

45. “On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world.” - Henry David Thoreau

46. “You just want to give up, he said when he was able to speak. Only you keep going. You still have to get up in the morning and pour the cereal in the bowls. You keep on breathing, whether you want to or not. Nobody's around to tell you how it's supposed to work. The usual rules just don't apply anymore. He was still talking, but she wasn't even sure if it was to her. When it started, he said, I thought nothing could be worse than those first days. And it wasn't only us, but everyone else you'd see, wandering around like they'd landed on a whole different planet. Instead of just dealing with your own heart getting ripped into pieces, wherever you looked you knew there were other people dealing with the same thing. You couldn't even be alone with it. Like you're out in the ocean and the undertow catches you and you start yelling for help, but then you look around, and all around you in the water for as far as you can see, there's all these other people flailing too. He sat there for a moment, shaking his head. You keep getting up in the morning and knowing this will continue maybe ten thousand more mornings. You wish you were the one who died. How much better would that be?” - Joyce Maynard

47. “Der Tod verändert auch die Lebenden.” - Markus Heitz

48. “Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when it'll be your last.” - Solange nicole

49. “Why was I standing on the street when the window feel out of the building? Why did the bus run over me? Because it was my turn in the barrel, that's why.” - Ellyn Bache

50. “The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.” - Saul Bellow

51. “Who would endure life if it were not for the hope of death?” - L.M. Montgomery

52. “For the very first time Andrew realized that life, real life, had no connection with the way people spent their days, whose lips they kissed, what medals were pinned on them, or the shoes they mended. Life, real life went on soundlessly...ultimately there was no difference between Queen Victoria and the most wretched beggar in London: both were complex machines made up of bone, organ, and tissue, whose fuel was the breath of God.” - Félix J. Palma

53. “Life may suck but death is worse.” - Alane Wilson

54. “Life is but a dream for the dead.” - Gerard Way

55. “The true terror Jonah thought the true mystery of life was not that we are all going to die but that we were all born that we were all once little babies like this unknowing and slowly reeling in the world gathering it loop by loop like a ball of string. The true terror was that we once didn't exist and then through no fault of our own we had to.” - Dan Chaon

56. “I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.” - Haruki Murakami

57. “Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue of the sky, full of stars, all solemn and golden, which extended their radiance unconcernedly into the distance. That was the nature of the stars. and the trees bore their buds and blossoms and scars for everyone to see, and whether it signified pleasure or pain, they accepted the strong will to live. flies that lived only for a day swarmed toward their death. every life had its radiance and beauty. i had insight into it all for a moment, understood it and found it good, and also found my life and sorrows good.” - Hermann Hesse

58. “If your life was complete, you'd be dead.” - Joshua Wisenbaker

59. “When you depart I'll blow you a Kiss take it to the Loved ones I already Miss.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

60. “I've been to weddings and I've been to wakes in either setting Love takes no breaks.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

61. “If you have a warm and caring heart, you're loved ones will ensure you never depart. For long after you've turned that final page you'll still be right there on center stage.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

62. “Jumping out of a perfectly good air plane is like driving through life without a good set of brakes.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

63. “I hope to die with dignity and not be on my death bed pondering the afterlife wearing a diaper named Depends.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

64. “I've diagnosed myself and discovered I have a limited 'life span' you can do this to. Then live life to its fullest in everything you do!” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

65. “I'm sucking on a cancer stick trying to think of something inspiring to say to help someone have a better life. That's "Irony".” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

66. “We are bound to expireEven metal which is sturdiest,Rusts.Even oxygen, the breath of life,Soon transpires. 8/6/11 -Luis Medina” - luigi komrad

67. “They say the brain never ages it’s a shame it can't teach the body that trick.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

68. “As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.” - Bram Stoker

69. “The earth will always be the same - only cities and history will change, even nations will change, governments and governors will go, the things made by men's hands will go, buildings will always crumble - only the earth will remain the same, there will always be men on the earth in the morning, there will always be the things made by God's hands - and all this history of cities and congress now will go, all modern history is only a littering Babylon smoking under the sun, delaying the day when men again will have to return to earth, to the earth of life and God -” - Jack Kerouac

70. “It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.” - Esi Edugyan

71. “When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people.” - Solange nicole

72. “Да, человек смертен, но это было бы еще полбеды. Плохо то, что он иногда внезапно смертен, вот в чем фокус! И вообще не может сказать, что он будет делать в сегодняшний вечер.” - Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

73. “Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.” - Mario Puzo

74. “I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.” - Anne Frank

75. “She promised him she would love him until she was physically unable to anymore and then after when all she could do was hold his photograph.” - Holly Hood

76. “That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale.” - E.A. Bucchianeri

77. “I am Josephine Darly, and I intend to live forever.” - Tessa Gratton

78. “To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.” - Teju Cole

79. “Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.” - James Dean

80. “In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.” - Cameron Conaway

81. “Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.” - Steve Jobs

82. “in that cold autistic dark.” - Cormac McCarthy

83. “In the grueling light that passed for day...” - Cormac McCarthy

84. “There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.” - Cormac McCarthy

85. “Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.” - Horace

86. “Death truly does have life, and walks with and lives through us everyday.” - Nicholas A. McGirr

87. “Losing never come easy. First off, preserved the memories.” - Hlovate

88. “I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo Coelho in his book: Aleph.(Note: bracketed text is mine.)... 'I spoke to three scholars,' [the character says 'at last.'] ...two of them said that, after death, the [sic (misprint, fault of the publisher)] just go to Paradise. The third one, though, told me to consult some verses from the Koran. [end quote]' ...I can see that he's excited. [narrator]' ...Now I have many positive things to say about Coelho: He is respectable, inspiring as a man, a truth-seeker, and an appealing writer; but one should hesitate to call him a 'literary' writer based on this quote. A 'literary' author knows that a character's excitement should be 'shown' in his or her dialogue and not in the narrator's commentary on it. Advice for Coelho: Remove the 'I can see that he's excited' sentence and show his excitement in the phrasing of his quote.(Now, in defense of Coelho, I am firmly of the opinion, having myself written plenty of prose that is flawed, that a novelist should be forgiven for slipping here and there.)Lastly, it appears that a belief in reincarnation is of great interest to Mr. Coelho ... Just think! He is a man who has achieved, (as Leonard Cohen would call it), 'a remote human possibility.' He has won lots of fame and tons of money. And yet, how his preoccupation with reincarnation—none other than an interest in being born again as somebody else—suggests that he is not happy!” - Roman Payne

89. “Things stayed peaceful in there, even as the crashing vehicles and the cries of the injured and dying reached a crescendo outside. "I fry mine in butter!" indeed.” - Kurt Vonnegut

90. “What is this?! I couldn't die back when I would've been glad to die anywhere, anytime, but now that dying would take hardly any effort, suddenly I can't afford to yet? What the hell am I supposed to do?” - Yukako Kabei

91. “No one lives here for ever ! This Land belongs to the Lord ! So make most of the time u spend here ! You have no liability, but just responsibility , for those who are and will follow their journey on this planet .” - sushil kumar

92. “Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.” - Marcus Aurelius

93. “Fretting over how life ends, or anything else for that matter, is a complete waste of time.” - Samantha Sotto

94. “I closed my eyes. I used to think I was protecting the world, too. But it wasn't that simple. Nothing was. Who were we to decide that anyone or anything didn't deserve the spark of life they had been given?” - Kiersten White

95. “Hanya ada satu kepastian, yaitu kepastian tentang masa lampau. Sedangkan tentang masa depan, yang ada hanyalah kepastian tentang kematian” - Erich Fromm

96. “Sometimes evil wins, nah, child. But it’s always fleeting. Just a temporary ripple in a sea of goodness, brought on by the carnal nature of greed ’n corruption. Sacrifice washes that ripple out in waves of love ’n light, and peace is found when justice is served, even for those who lose, ya hear?” - Rachael Wade

97. “A little while and I will be gone from among you, whither I cannot tell. From nowhere we come, into nowhere we go. What is life? It is a flash of firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” - Chief Crowfoot

98. “O fim de uma viagem é apenas o começo de outra” - José Saramago

99. “It was then that I realized I wasn't afraid to lose my life; I was afraid to lose the life I could've lived.” - Amanda Nuri

100. “I thought at first that she was just dead. Just darkness...I thought about the slow process of becoming bone and then fossil and then coal that will, in millions of years, be mined by humans of the future, and how they would heat their homes with her and then she would be smoke billowing out of a smokestack, coating the atmosphere. I still that think that, sometimes, maybe "the afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter...I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take her genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else there entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed...energy is never created and never destroyed. We cannot be born and cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations... Thomas Edison's last words were: It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.” - John Green

101. “This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was beautiful. Even the dirty little pads of her feet were beautiful. I cursed myself then. For once, heaven had sent me Beauty in its most perfected form and I abandoned it. She might not have been a girl after all but an angel: a force to guide me on this hazardous path of life I hurry down. How can life be hazardous if it can only end in death?” - Roman Payne

102. “We definitely don't exist just for the sake of welcoming death someday; I believe we live for the sake of living on." —Kazuto Kirigaya "Kirito" (Sword Art Online)” - Reki Kawahara

103. “You are a speck. This whole life that seems so huge to us? asall of human enterprise even? Fuck us. We are so tiny," as he said "so tiny" he bent over until his forehead was nearly touching the tabletop, as if he was homing in on the speck that was them. "I can't stand to think we only add up to a blip. I need to think we're more than that." "Deal with it." he looked around as if someone had called his name.” - Carol Anshaw

104. “That's what it means to die, to not be able to stop looking at whatever's in front of you. Some darn thing placed directly there, with nothing you can do about it...” - Philip K. Dick

105. “You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left.” - Stieg Larsson

106. “The only really frightening thing about Cinnamon Hill belongs in the realm of the living and serves to remind me that some of them-just a few of them, a tiny minority-are much more dangerous than all the dead put together.” - Johnny Cash

107. “When death tells a story yo really have to listen” - Markus Zusak

108. “In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on.” - Dannion Brinkley

109. “Prisoner of Her Own Captivity” - Brandalynn Davis

110. “He wore the memory of her embrace like armor, and though he knew it would not save his life, it would be all that was left to him to ease his passage into whatever lay beyond.” - Andrew Levkoff

111. “Certainly there is life and there is death, but even in death, if we look closely enough, we will find grace.” - Jeffrey R. Anderson

112. “Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation.Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again.Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around.Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn.” - Dean Koontz

113. “If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No surprises, no detours. Just a thick tapestry of days and nights that at the end of his time on earth, he could roll up and proudly claim as his own.” - Shilpa Agarwal

114. “Though his health and family had been broken in the process, he'd found his purpose in life — to share the ancient key discovered anew in the garden: if we feed the earth, it will feed us.I see that is the secret, too, to living. Though the earth demands its sacrifices, spring will always return” - Melissa Coleman

115. “If the inevitably of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does.” - John Green

116. “There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity.Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.” - Ilsa J. Bick

117. “That night in bed I was thinking about the way creeks and streams operate. They start off little, gurgling and bubbling and jumping over rocks and stuff, full of energy, going all over the place. Then they get older and bigger, become rivers, take a more definite course, stick to their path, know where they're going, get slower and wider. And eventually they reach the ocean and become part of this vast mysterious world of water that stretches away forever.Yep, just like people.” - John Marsden

118. “All have a shadow over the earth but no shadow under earth or in grave.” - Abidul Huda Chowdhury Suzon

119. “This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.” - Justin Cronin

120. “I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should” - Terry Pratchett

121. “كن في الدنيا كأنك غريب أو عابر سبيل وعدّ نفسك من أصحاب القبور” - محمد عليه الصلاة والسلام

122. “Take the matter of being born. What does being born mean to most people? Catastrophe unmitigated. Socialrevolution. The cultured aristocrat yanked out of his hyperexclusively ultravoluptuous superpalazzo,and dumped into an incredibly vulgar deterioncamp swarming with every conceivable species of undesirable organism. Mostpeople fancy a guaranteed birthproof safetysuit of nondestructible selflessness. If mostpeople were to be born twice they'd improbably call it dying.you and I are not snobs. We can never be born enough.” - E. E. Cummings

123. “All paths lead to death, our premature sacrifice for future spawn(from Elixir)” - Bryan Murphy

124. “We're always on breath away from something--living or dying--, sometimes it just can't be helped.” - Heather Gudenkauf

125. “We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped.” - Heather Gudenkauf

126. “There's nothing like love or incumbent death to make you realize how many things you still want to do.” - Monica La Porta

127. “Two Things to be accepted for sure in life time?1. Birth2. Death” - Deepak Yadav

128. “People don’t always value life, even their own, as much as they should.” - Alex Potvin

129. “The bell tolling not for us, it’s time for bluebells.” - Lara Biyuts

130. “I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you. But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis.” - John Green

131. “Careful with your life.” - satree

132. “He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.” - Boris Pasternak

133. “My chest tightens to the point I fear my heart will suffocate from the pressure of it. Society's standards are the total opposite from how I was raised. The boy who I thought to be so strikingly handsome has less than a year of his life to live, my new friend only a few more months beyond that. Yet they are living these uneventful lives in which they don't think there is a reason for anything. Will I ever see my mother again, or is this how I will be forced to live the rest of my life, as well?” - Jen Naumann

134. “Would words shatter the immensity of life and death so close to one another?” - Susan Abulhawa

135. “Erlendur didn’t believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didn’t believe in God although he’d often read the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this world would affect whether he went to heaven or hell. He felt that life itself offered a mixture of the two.Then sometimes he experienced this incomprehensible and supernatural de´ja` -vu, experienced time and place as if he’d seen it all before, as if he stepped outside himself, became an onlooker to his own life. There was no way he could explain what it was thathappened or why his mind played tricks on him like this.” - Arnaldur Indriðason

136. “Death is only as strong as you believe it to be.” - Amy Neftzger

137. “For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently.” - Jon Kabat-Zinn

138. “To them he’s the slightly less frightening alternative to the grim reaper.” - Kat Kruger

139. “In the end, age in numbers is no more than an empty bag. The only way to truly tell a person's years is by examing the contents they have filled it with.” - Thurman P. Banks Jr.

140. “One of the best parts of being a Guardian is that we get a chance to grow and change. We get to exist in both worlds. We know the secret of life and have the knowledge of death” - Mackie Burt

141. “ A day without family is like a year without rain ” - Susan

142. “I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.” - John Green

143. “The place of horror turns out to be no more than a green scoop, sometimes shadowed, sometimes shining with the bilberries and grass within it, as if a mouth had opened from which streamed a beam of light. So my uncle Robert's death, which had looked from a distance to be an all-consuming tragedy was, close-up, the story of a man finding release from his pain and how his brother had showed such defiant love. The past was a grave, a trap - and yet, also neither of these. Just light, coming and going.At the wolf pit you imagine you will stare into a hole littered with bones, but what draws you to that place is not what you take from it. The wolf pit seems a delicate illusion. You walk towards it; there is nothing, just a curve of the moor; then it is a soft green light, and then it is nothing again.” - Will Cohu

144. “Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.” - Now Is Good

145. “I was a puzzle. An enigma. I was nothing. And then I was again.” - Daniel Xiao Wang

146. “Te leven betekent strikt genomen niets anders dan dag voor dag zelfmoord op te schuiven.” - Stig Dagerman

147. “The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creators.” - Bryant McGill

148. “Ali život se nikome, razumete li me, nikome na ovom svetu ne duguje. Ni majci, ni deci, ni prijateljima, ni jedom idealu! Život je moje neprikosnoveno pravo! U šta i kako ću ga satreti, moja je lična stvar.” - Dobrica Ćosić

149. “I'll be around my whole life. That's a long time to me.” - Jodi Meadows

150. “So many people die with their dreams in their hands.” - Alex Rogers