death Quotes

“And do you know, there's less charm in life, when one thinks of death, but there's more peace.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.”

― George Orwell, 1984

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“Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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“Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”

― George Orwell, Animal Farm

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“Of what butterfly is, then, this earthly life the grub?”

― Victor Hugo, The Man Who Laughs

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“Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.”

― Stephen King, The Stand

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“The most profound sentence ever written, Temple said with enthusiasm, is the sentence at the end of the zoology. Reproduction is the beginning of death.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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“It's utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death.”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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