Top 100 Quotes About Living Life And Dying

#1. Yes, it will all end one day; but today is worth living.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

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#2. The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person.

Susan Wells Bennett

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#3. The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.

Don DeLillo

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#4. There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

Tom Robbins

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#5. Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.

Sandy Fussell

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#6. The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that's only if you're very lucky. And you listen very hard.

Mark Slouka

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#7. We are dust and to dust we shall return.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#8. Death is most terrifying to those who have yet to live.

Dan Pearce

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#9. Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town.

John Green

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#10. The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.

Maurice Blanchot

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#11. The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

John Flavel

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#12. We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped.

Heather Gudenkauf

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#13. Sometimes the dying live more fiercely and wisely than the rest of us. (146)

Julia Cameron

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#14. Christ died not so that you could freely go on sinning, and therefore, continue dying; He died rather so that you could freely grow in obedience, and therefore, start living.

Criss Jami

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#15. And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
That dying chose the living world for text
And never could have rested in the tomb
But that, long travelling, he had come
Towards nightfall upon certain set apart
In a most desolate stony place ...

William Butler Yeats

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#16. Life is so precious because it's short. Even the most resilient people are fragile. Life isn't about dying or not dying. It's about living well. Living so you can be proud and happy.

Ilona Andrews

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#17. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

Joan Of Arc

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#18. Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once.

Michael R. French

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#19. Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy, and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dying for, and circumstances where courage is still prized.

Annie Dillard

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#20. There are only four questions of importance in life: What is sacred, of what is the spirit made, what is worth living for, and what is worth dying for. The answer to all of them is the same. Only LOVE.

Umberto Eco

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#21. The worker picked up Pakhom's spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.

Leo Tolstoy

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#22. You've got to work at living-99 and 9/10 of Americans work at dying!

Jack LaLanne

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#23. Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

Orson Scott Card

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#24. Anything man can make, man can destroy.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

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#25. During the last week of her father's life, Blanca stayed home with him. 'I didn't bathe. I didn't sleep. I sat in the bed with him in the living room. And we were communicating all the time. I kept thinking, and it's more beautiful in Spanish, but I wanted to bottle his breathing.

Kevin Renner

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#26. Dying was and easy thing to accomplish, effortless in its agony. It was living that was hard, requiring endless toil and labor, and for all one's efforts, it could be stolen in an instant.

Danielle L. Jensen

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#27. Why do we as humans always tend to remember the worse things about people? We may know someone for many years, know them as vibrant and healthy, yet when they fall ill and pass away, we can only picture them at their sickest, as though they were born and lived their whole lives wearing a death mask.

K. Martin Beckner

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#28. Go ahead and do what you really love to do! Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a moment doing something for a living you don't like to do? What kind of a living is that? That is not a living, that is a dying!

Neale Donald Walsch

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#29. 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

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#30. at man's height the mouth utters its cries, tosses forth its oracles, gives vent to its puns. To allow words to come to life, bare themselves, and show us by chance, for the space of a lightning bolt bony with dice, a few of our reasons for living and dying

Michel Leiris

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#31. 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

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#32. Mankind thinks only of living because he is dying, and it is only in dying that he gains his freedom to live

Judy Azar LeBlanc

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#33. Life's short when compared to eternity, but eternity is only worth it because of life.

Scott Thompson

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#34. I have a theory that as human beings get older, chemicals are released into the brain to prepare us for the end. Sort of like how the nurse lubes your ass up before the anus-cam. It makes the whole thing a lot easier to swallow. Easier, not enjoyable.

Kris D'Agostino

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#35. We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying. We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need.

Nhat Hanh

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#36. And dying is more natural than living, because what could be more unnatural than that panicstricken thing leaping and falling like a last flame beneath the ribs?

William Golding

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#37. In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth ... and wondering with an immortal Alice at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles - no matter the imminent peril - these asides of the spirit ... are the highest form of consciousness.

Vladimir Nabokov

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#38. We now have a strong desire for living combined with a strange carelessness about dying. We desire life like water and yet are ready to drink death like wine.

G.K. Chesterton

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#39. life is the reason for living and death is the reason for dying if we are to live, why die ? there is a ending for everything and being alive gives us a chance to do something and enjoy it.

Pamela

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#40. We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

Aleister Crowley

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#41. And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living do,
that dying is what the loving do,
and that dead dogs are those who do not know
that dying is what, to live, each has to do.

Alastair Reid

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#42. The scariest time of my life was when I knew my Nana was dying. It was horrible, as there's nothing I could do to stop it. I grew up living with my Mum, brother and Nana (my mum's mum), so it felt like I lost a parent rather than a grandparent. It makes you realise the fragility of life.

Nikki Sanderson

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#43. I keep dying and hoping you notice me. But you're too busy living.

F.K. Preston

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#44. There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

Victor Hugo

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#45. Your attachment to unhealthy people and bad habits, which offer you no real control, is why you're spiritually dying and living a life out of balance.

Shannon L. Alder

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#46. Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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#47. It is appointed for man to die once, Live life to the fullness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#48. I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

Alfred Bester

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#49. I think that dying is the easy part of life; for in waking each day and living in every moment, therein lies the challenge

Jeremy Aldana

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#50. You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.

Patrick Rothfuss

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#51. One day I wish to die, but today, I wish to live.

Peprah Boasiako

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#52. It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and
what will perhaps make you wonder more
it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

Seneca.

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#53. Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil
only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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#54. The Christian pities men because they are dying, and the Buddhist pities them because they are living. The Christian is sorry for what damages the life of a man; but the Buddhist is sorry for him because he is alive.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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#55. There's a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are "making a living". No, they're not. They're dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.

Adrian Tan

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#56. When everything looks the same on the outside, yet everything has changed on the inside, we break. We break in half.
This is the duality of loss.

Christina Rasmussen

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#57. Humans are queer. A man, living and well, is ignored or criticized. Dying or dead, he is noticed and praised. Death sheds a temporary glamour over the poorest soul. It is as though in dying, he has accomplished something which life never gave him.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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#58. Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Simone De Beauvoir

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#59. Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.

Emm Cole

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#60. Life is more than not dying. Every living creature is born; it grows and dies. The pattern is the same, regardless of the span allotted. You build between the beginning and the end. What you build is yours. Nothing else is.

Tom Deaderick

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#61. I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we're actually turning into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we're suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before!

C. JoyBell C.

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#62. He tried to disguise how tired and ill he was, how depressing the thought of death was to him and how he spent his days and nights thinking up schemes of living beyond what the prognosis said. His hope, if not his heart, would find a way.

Noorilhuda

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#63. Dying and living, weeping and laughing--all parts of our existence here on earth. What would happen in your friendships if together you embraced the hard parts of life and did not fear weeping together?

Afton Rorvik

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#64. Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.

Zig Ziglar

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#65. Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.

Mo Yan

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#66. Embrace the path your loved one's story has taken, and be part of the culture shift that acknowledges dying as part of living.

Carrie Chavez Hansen

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#67. ..Breaking yet budding,
dying yet living - standing
amongst ruins and rage,
reaching for possibilities
playing hard to get.

Meraaqi

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#68. You should have no fear from dying because it's there no matter what.

Abdeletif

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#69. I had a very funny and depressing talk with my seventy-four-year-old mother. I decided, she doesn't have a bucket list - she has a kick-the-bucket list.

Lori Lesko

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#70. Death is the first and final entry in the book of this life.

Kevin Focke

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#71. There is a greater will, a greater need and purpose hidden within each life, and there is an inner law that knows best how each must live and that is worth stealing for; it's worth dying for, and worth living for as well.

Michael Meade

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#72. When you were born the world was smiling, and you cry, because living a life so that you are dying smiled, cried and the world.

Tupac Shakur

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#73. She considers the past. She measures it and weighs it and holds it in her hand like a plum. The past is everything now, and she understands that this is what it means to be dying: You stop looking forward, instead living for moments that happened years before.

Thomas Christopher Greene

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#74. In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living.

Brodi Ashton

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#75. Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.

Virginia Postrel

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#76. The kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn't built for humans, we were built for the world. t

John Green

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#77. The justification of my life before God is to live because of and toward the living, dying, and rising of Jesus Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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#78. I'm going to live until I die and I'm not going to get life and death confused. While I'm on this earth I'm going to LIVE. Why only be half alive? Every minute a person spends worrying about dying is just one minute that fellow might as well have been dead.

David J. Schwartz

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#79. Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick

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#80. As we witness the death of departed souls, other people will observe our departure from the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#81. Courage is continuing to perform your daily tasks, and being hopeful despite the odds, not inflicting your fears on others, and remaining sensitive to their needs and expectations, and also not supposing, because you're dying, nothing matters any more.

Leonard Michaels

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#82. I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

Red Smith

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#83. Nature is never static. It is always changing. Everything is in a constant state of flux. Nothing endures. Everything is in the process of either coming into being or expiring.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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#84. Living's immediacy, you go full sail, you're in a fever of motion. Until it's safe and past and done and dead and you can say, like waking from a dream, "Yes I was happy then, yes now it's all over I can see I was happy then." Maybe that's the advantage of dying?

Joyce Carol Oates

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#85. Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.

Daisy Whitney

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#86. It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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#87. So - people a thousand years from now ... This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our dying.

Thornton Wilder

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#88. She was worth running for. Worth every loss in my life. Worth stepping outside the law. Worth living, dying, and everything in between.

C.D. Reiss

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#89. It's a strange experience, dying. People talk about how it creeps over you like a warm blanket. That's not true. It starts out warm, but then it hits you like a bucket of icy water after stepping out of a sweat lodge. Then it's all black like a void. I would know. I died and lived to tell about it.

Morgan Chalfant

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#90. There are four questions of value in life ... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is same. Only love.

Johnny Depp

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#91. That Jem makes beautiful things and I destroy them. That it really ought to be me dying and not him. I mean, what's the point of living if you can't even enjoy it? Yet Jem enjoys all the life he's got. It's not fair.

Cassandra Clare

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#92. Life's about living and being happy, not about dying.

Dean Koontz

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#93. You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

Natalie Goldberg

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#94. The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

Arundhati Roy

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#95. The truth is that each of us fall short of loving unconditionally. We don't love others the way God loves us. Yet Jesus extended perfect love by living and dying for all of our sins. In spite of our failures, weaknesses, and selfishness, He sacrificed His own life so we could have eternal life.

Dana Arcuri

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#96. Life and death are something everyone will experience. It is living that only few will have embraced

Ricky Maye

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#97. I'm merely dying to be remembered for simply writing about my living memories

Michael Biondi

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#98. One day you will be the only one in the room not living.

Darnell Lamont Walker

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#99. Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life. And love ... love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too. -Tohrment

J.R. Ward

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#100. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it?

Nikki Sixx

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