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    Richelle Mead
    “You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss
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    Mary Stewart
    “Every life has death and every light has shadow. Be content to stand in the light and let the shadow fall where it will.”
    ― Mary Stewart, The Hollow Hills
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    Vladimir Nabokov
    “Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
    ― Vladimir Nabokov
    tags: imagination
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    James Patterson
    “The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.”
    ― James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
    tags: death, understanding
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
    tags: death, murder
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    H. Rider Haggard
    “Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.”
    ― H. Rider Haggard, She
    tags: after-death, death, forget, forgetting, immortality, life, live-forever, mortality, sleep
    960 likes

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    Markus Zusak
    “I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.”
    ― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
    tags: death, funeral, life
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    Sarah J. Maas
    “But death was her curse and her gift, and death had been her good friend these long, long years.”
    ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight
    tags: death, heartbreak, reflective
    1062 likes

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    John Green
    “Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: cancer, death, illness
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    John Donne
    “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
    ― John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose
    tags: community, death, isolation, mankind
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    Jim Morrison
    “No one here gets out alive.”
    ― Jim Morrison
    tags: death, life, verse
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    Albert Camus
    “It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
    ― Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners
    tags: compassion, death, execution, intelligence, scholars, thinkers
    814 likes

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    Jeffrey Eugenides
    “In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.”
    ― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
    tags: death, life
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    Richard Puz
    “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
    From an Irish headstone”
    ― Richard Puz, The Carolinian
    tags: death, death-and-love, death-of-a-loved-one, eternal-love, healing, healing-the-past, heartache-love, heartbreak, love-hurts, memorial, memories, memory
    785 likes

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    E.B. White
    “After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: birth, death, life
    726 likes

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    Richard Adams
    “My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.”
    ― Richard Adams, Watership Down
    tags: death, grief, loss
    760 likes

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    Janet Fitch
    “The phoenix must burn to emerge.”
    ― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
    tags: death, failure, rebirth
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    Christopher Hitchens
    “What do you most value in your friends?
    Their continued existence.”
    ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
    tags: death, friends, friendship, life, proust-questionnaire, rushdie
    600 likes

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    Hunter S. Thompson
    “No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt”
    ― Hunter S. Thompson
    tags: bombs, death, depression, fun, greed, suicide
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    Charles Bukowski
    “in this land some of us fuck more than
    we die but most of us die
    better than we fuck”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen
    tags: carpe-diem, death, enjoy-life, life, misattributed, time
    589 likes

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    Richelle Mead
    “Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Frostbite
    tags: death, inspirational
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    Franz Kafka
    “He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
    ― Franz Kafka
    tags: death, dying, fear, franz, kafka, life
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    Epicurus
    “Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
    ― Epicurus
    tags: awful, death, inspirational, peace, philosophy, serenity, wisdom
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    Clifford Odets
    “If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.”
    ― Clifford Odets
    tags: death, depression, marilyn-monroe, suicide
    563 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
    tags: death, drugs, self-discovery
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    Lord Byron
    “Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”
    ― Lord George Gordon Byron
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    Frank Herbert
    “There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: death, legacy, life, muad-dib, philosophy, truth, wisdom
    897 likes

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    Horace Mann
    “Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
    ― Horace Mann
    tags: accomplishment, achievement, death, humanity, victory
    553 likes

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    Milan Kundera
    “Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”
    ― Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
    tags: death, men, relationships, sex, women
    405 likes



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