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Hope strengthens desire and love strengthens confidence.
— Debasish Mridha
But now, in the final hours, even hope had vanished. Yet he could smile. At a point without hope he had found contentment. He knew he had tried and there was nothing to be sorry for. And this was complete victory, because it was a victory over himself.
— Richard Matheson, The Shrinking Man
Every great dream begins with a perspective
—  change the world with the power and strength within you
With high hope and optimism, start swimming with time.
— Debasish Mridha
We are, each of us, hopeless hopers.
— David Arnold
Sometimes, when people look at me, I can see the pity in their eyes. All I want is hope, but neither of us can give it to each other.
— Genesis Quihuis
When i dream, i see the Hope. When i see the Hope, i am the dream.
— wildan faris afif
Without Courage, Hope is a Universal liar.
— Sahithi Setikam, Is Hope is for Sissies
When your world gets stripped down to nothing you may feel empty and naked—but this is when your space can be filled with what is new, and maybe even upgraded. Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...
— Maquita Donyel Irvin
Hope is an investment that never fails the investor
—  don’t read the Red Herring prospectus before investing in hope.
Never treat your fear as an enemy; it’s a friend in disguise, only if we are able to recognize its worth.
— Mayank S. Sengar, Life and The Grey Notes
How can the sky be the limit if there are footsteps on the moon?
— Emily Marple
Just as we have been given hope, we carry that hope; and for as long as we carry that hope, we learn to spread hope; and as we spread hope, lives are inevitably changed, and saved. What beautiful meaning hope gives to life!
— Kcat Yarza, KCAT CAN: I have a pen that writes
passion and determination is the fuel that will get you to the almost impossible faraway destination you need to get to in the coming soon future
— Manuel Corazzari
Every Human creates for another Human, So every Human has a 'Hope' for other Human, Try to recognize and never let it down because your 'Hope' is also in hand of another Human.
— Arbab J. Edhi
Fear is the poison that erodes resolve. And fear is not without a killer of its own. Hope.
— R.R. Virdi, Grave Measures
Life is cold
—  I will put on my clothes and wear my shoes
Bruised, beaten, shaken, weakened, tossed, thrown, lost, alone, heard, helped, healed, hope... it still works.
— N'Zuri Za Austin
Walk gently, and be brave.
— Eleanor Brownn
The world is made of more than particles. It's made of things you can't hold in your hand, like fear, love, loss, hope, truth.
— Jaclyn Moriarty, The Cracks in the Kingdom
Dawn is ever the hope of men.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Remember diamonds are created under pressure so hold on, it will be your time to shine soon.
— Sope Agbelusi
I Am ! Two powerful words.... You must confess... I Am who God called me to be. I Am a Success. I Am not what you think of me. I Am more than a conqueror. I Am walking by Faith. I Am a Gift.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink
Biggest tragedy of life is when God ask us to glorify Him for our sakes but we choose to glorify self for satan's good.
— indonesia123
They were not creating a mess. They were just slowly illuminating it.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue
What "wasting time" means? At the time we glorify self instead of glorify God, at that time we are wasting our time as... God is Time.
— indonesia123
When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.
— Anthony Liccione
I had started out in life trusting everyone and now I trusted no one. So I had a few acquaintances and no close friends. It was perhaps in reaction against the inevitable loneliness of my life that I'd find myself doing bold, risky, even outrageous things without hesitation or surprise. I was usually disappointed in these adventures and they didn't have much effect on me, good or bad, but I never quite lost the hope of something better or different.
— Jean Rhys, Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by Jean Rhys
Let go and let God. Don’t dwell on your past mistakes. When you do that, your past keeps you from moving forward. The wonder of the Atonement is that you don’t have to be the same person you were yesterday, last year or even a minute ago. Through Christ, and through the power of repentance, you are continually being reborn.
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
If you are going through hell, keep going
— Winston S. Churchill
Greatest irony of life is living in self glory while glorifying God which is the ultimate joy is left behind.
— indonesia123
Almost any book was better than life, Audrey thought. Or rather, life as she was living it. Of course, life would soon change, open out, become quite different. You couldn't go on if you didn't hope that, could you? But for the time being there was no doubt that it was pleasant to get away from it. And books could take her away.
— Jean Rhys, Sleep it Off Lady: Stories by Jean Rhys
Renewed hope followed renewed effort: It shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, faded, flickered: Not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out, and then I felt dark indeed.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Inevitably, mistakes are going to happen, sin is going to win a round or two in the battle of life, but there is always, always, always a way back because Jesus Christ has our backs.
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
It does not matter where you are—from this very moment on you choose the direction of your life.
— Toni Sorenson
Impian ituSekeras batu. Sejelas kamu.
— Sakinah Sa'aya
When we take our doubts and questions to Christ, we get truthful answers. We get complete answers. We get the love, wisdom, and support we need.
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
You will always think that you cant do it, you may think that the idea you have is useless, but the idea you only have can change your life.
— Neymat Khan
Positive minds full of faith and hope produce positive lives.
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
An attitude adjustment from the inside out is what it will take to get you to change direction. The truth is God is on your side, no matter how far you’ve wandered. He still loves you. He still needs you. Your sins don’t define you. He does.
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
Life isn’t about being perfect; it’s about improving. It’s not about achieving more, acquiring more, or even about actually being more. It’s about becoming better…better than you were.
— Toni Sorenson
You’re a child of God. You don’t need to ever struggle with feelings of inferiority or defeat. You might make mistakes and find yourself off the straight and narrow path from time to time. No fears. No despair. Just turn around in the road and head back toward home. I promise you that Christ will be your willing guide.
— Toni Sorenson
Where there’s life, there’s the hope of change.
— Timothy Zahn, Choices of One
Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je ne serai, désormais, ni heureux, ni malheureux. Je ne peux pas ressusciter. Je vieillirai aussi tranquille que je le suis aujourd’hui dans cette chambre où tant d’êtres ont laissé leur trace, où aucun être n’a laissé la sienne.Cette chambre, on la retrouve à chaque pas. C’est la chambre de tout le monde. On croit qu’elle est fermée, non : elle est ouverte aux quatre vents de l’espace. Elle est perdue au milieu des chambres semblables, comme de la lumière dans le ciel, comme un jour dans les jours, comme moi partout.Moi, moi ! Je ne vois plus maintenant que la pâleur de ma figure, aux orbites profondes, enterrée dans le soir, et ma bouche pleine d’un silence qui doucement, mais sûrement, m’étouffe et m’anéantit.Je me soulève sur mon coude comme sur un moignon d’aile. Je voudrais qu’il m’arrivât quelque chose d’infini !
— Henri Barbusse, Hell
Life is cold, but I will put on my clothes and wear my shoes
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
To step into God’s will is a step into a different realm, even though your feet remain on firma terra.
— Toni Sorenson
Ljubav se moze pojaviti u najcudnijim oblicima.Zato je i cesto pomesamo sa necim sto ljubav nikada nece biti.
— Tamara Stamenkovic
Cesto kazemo da smo emotivno nedostupni,ali nas pogled prevari i kaze da smo uvek dostupni.
— Tamara Stamenkovic
Sometimes the fact that you can't sense God isn't an indication that He is not there. It is just an indication that you are hanging out in the wrong place.The cave is not a physical location, it is a state of mind.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
You will always end up in frustration whenever you try to produce outside your purpose.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Sometimes God wraps destiny in what we perceive as just another day. The same day that David's father asked him to go and deliver bread to his brothers in the field was the same day that God used him to bring goliath down. Take every minute in your life serious.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Real faith looks beneath the surface. Real faith knows that faith works sometimes in dark places. Real faith knows that sometimes in order to see a change, you will have to steer through your situation to really see it.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
God's perspectives requires persistence. To have God's perspective in the world we live in requires persistence.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
If you work by faith and not by sight, you will always see a sign. You have to develop a space of comfort to know that there is a difference between signs and sounds, it means God will tell you that He will make a change in your life but He won't show you anything to demonstrate the change for a little while because He doesn't want your faith to be in the change; He wants your faith to be in the promise, so that when the change is a bit slow in coming, you will know how to trust in Him while you wait for it to come to pass.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Have you ever asked yourself this question "what can God do through me?" The preacher has no platform if the people has no sense of mission.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
In dealing with us, God always starts with our motives. What do you want for the people? What does God wants for his people? What do you want Him to do for you; that's is a starting place.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Blind barthimus used his mouth and his feet to affect what wasn't working in his life? What do you use to affect what's not working in your life? God is not interested in your perfection, He is interested in your participation. It is your participation that attracts the presence of God.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
What is your motive when you go to church? To feed or to be fed? To serve or to be served? To worship or to be worshipped? To praise or to be praised? To teach or to learn? To give or to receive?Remember the woman with the issue of blood did not met Jesus in the church. Blind barthimus was blind though he could hear did not see Jesus but heard about Jesus passing
—  I am just wondering how many people have heard about Jesus through you?Who was this man interested in? Your answer might be Jesus of course but definitely not. The man loves himself and so was seeking healing even when the crowd could not allow him see Jesus.Let the crowd in the church not deceive you because God usually speak to one. (A bit deep).
Why do people go to church on Sundays? A question that is very complicated because I know what the answer is supposed to be but I do not really know the answer.. I think people go because it is a kind of tradition. I think some goes because someone told them if tgey do not they might go to hell. Maybe some go to look for a wife or husband ☺. Maybe some go to church to display their latest designer shoes or handbags. Some goes just to please their Pastor. Some people go to church because they love the music or the preaching. Some goes because of some social reasons and friendship. Some have it in their mind that they will experience the presence of God in the church. Some goes to church because of miracle. Some goes to church when they are expecting something maybe child, comfort, marriage, work etc.. Some felt it is an obligation to give God a day out of the seven days he createdLet me tell you that church is not there to entertain you, Ephesians 3:20... there are things going on in the church that some people barely know about.Ask yourself today why do I go to church. I am sure a sincere answer will help you.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
I don't just have only the peace of God, I do also have a God who gives peace, not just resources but the revelation of His presence.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Be anxious for no thing, be concerned about the state of your soul and that of your children, be concerned about God's work in the world; these are genuine concern but when it comes to the things in your life.....be not anxious. If God is for us who can be against us?
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Don't think because you can't affect something at a great level that God can't use you in a great way. David didn't even train one day with the armies but He won the war. He didn't even have a weapon but he killed a giant.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
God wants to use you right where you are with what you have not what you do not have.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
We always think that God's presence is always provided to fix our problems but what if God's presence is more about fixing your perspectives? So that you will have a new way to see your problems. If you didn't make your bed before leaving home this morning, no angel is going to make your bed for you, it is still going to be as you left it till you come back.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Some people want to kill goliath but they do not want to attend to sheep. How can God use you to kill giants if you cannot follow simple instructions?
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Sometimes we want God to use us to do big things when we would not even want to do the basics.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
You don't have to position yourself in front of people to be used by God. You don't have to convince anyone that you are good enough for the voice of God, just be grateful that God chooses who He wills and once He is ready to use you, no devil in hell can stop Him.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
You can't disappoint what God has appointed.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
If you can't see the assets in you, it will be hard for you to export it to the world. Recognise who you are and the world will recognise you.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
People run around looking for millions of likes in their life and on the social media but do you know what? If you get just one true like from just one who loves you the most, it surpasses all other millions. God loves you the most even without make over.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
In God's presence I find peace that is much deeper than any disappointment. I will grow and I understand I can't grow myself, that is why I need God and His grace.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
We are all planted in God's vineyard and our lives are filled with potentials and purpose and we have all been given the hopes to anchor our lives even in the most disappointed times. So God is waiting to see what you and I will make out of the raw materials that He has given to us. He is waiting to see what we will make out of the discouragement and disappointment. I believe that in those deepest places of disappointment that the greatest grace will manifest.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
I am so glad that God's disappointment in me is not greater than his love and I still have a Destiny. I am growing in grace and mercy because that is the only soil that can produce the kind of life that God desires.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
God's voice will be heard in the cave but only His visions will be revealed to you on the mountain. (A bit deep). God will always love you and will always speak to you but when you lose your perspective, you won't see his plan.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Some people are disappointed in their life because they are trying to use the tools that God did not authorised them to use in their life, trying to build on a purpose that is not even attached in their personality.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
In God’s Kingdom there are no overnight sensations or flash-in-the-pan successes.Anyone who wants to be used of God will experience hidden years in the backside of the desert. During that time the Lord is polishing, sharpening and preparing us to fit into His bow, so at the right time, like “a polished shaft” He can launch us into fruitful service. The invisible years are years of serving, studying, being faithful in another person’s ministry and doing the behind-the-scenes work. The Bible says, ‘God is not unjust; he will not forget your work’ (Hebrews 6:10 NIV 2011 Edition). Be patient; when the time is right He will bring forth the fruit He placed inside you.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Most wars start with a lie, good wars, bad wars, they start with a lie, and the peace that comes afterwards, those promises of forgiveness and cooperation and fair play for all… those are lies too, lies wrapped in hope.
— Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
now,never mindthe boy who came out of that reading rooma new man,safe in the hope of what was to comein the summers of his life.
— Thabo Jijana, Failing Maths and My Other Crimes
I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo."So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.
— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
I don't want to die without any scars.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.
— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Collection)
It kills me sometimes, how people die.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
You'll stay with me?'Until the very end,' said James.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.
— Herbert Hoover
If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?
— Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.
— J.K. Rowling
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?
— Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassinated. He lived for several days after he was shot, and towards the end, his wife started crying and screaming, "I want to go too! I want to go too!" And with his last measure of strength, McKinley turned to her and spoke his last words: "We are all going.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there's a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she's gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.
— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.
— Edgar Allan Poe
When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
The dead can survive as part of the lives of those that still live.
— Kenzaburō Ōe, Hiroshima Notes
People living deeply have no fear of death.
— Anaïs Nin
His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a moment and saw a black-painted boy calling the name Jesse Owens as he ran through an imaginary tape. I saw him hip-deep in some icy water, chasing a book, and I saw a boy lying in bed, imagining how a kiss would taste from his glorious next-door neighbor. He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
— Will Rogers
Here lies Dobby, a free elf.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.
— Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
Dying is an art.Like everything else,I do it exceptionally well.I do it so it feels like hell.I do it so it feels real.I guess you could say I have a call.
— Sylvia Plath, Ariel
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.
— Thomas  Campbell
She's not here," I tell him. Buttercup hisses again. "She's not here. You can hiss all you like. You won't find Prim." At her name, he perks up. Raises his flattened ears. Begins to meow hopefully. "Get out!" He dodges the pillow I throw at him. "Go away! There's nothing left for you here!" I start to shake, furious with him. "She's not coming back! She's never ever coming back here again!" I grab another pillow and get to my feet to improve my aim. Out of nowhere, the tears begin to pour down my cheeks. "She's dead, you stupid cat. She's dead.
— Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.
— Benjamin Franklin
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.
— Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring
No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena
The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.
— James Patterson, The Angel Experiment
Would it hurt to die?
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
— Kahlil Gibran
No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
— William S. Burroughs
Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
— Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.
— Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.
— Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.
— Gloria Steinem
It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.
— Michael Crichton
I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.
— Charles Bukowski
When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
— Albert Einstein
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
That is not dead which can eternal lie,And with strange aeons even death may die.
— H.P. Lovecraft, The Nameless City
Adam is crying and somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.I can't say goodbye.
— China Miéville, The Scar
I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.
— Lili St. Crow, Jealousy
I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.
— Brian Andreas, Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas
A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.
— Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
— Winston S. Churchill, The River War
On many counts, taking a boy like Rudy Steiner was robbery--so much life, so much to live for--yet somehow, I'm certain he would have loved to see the frightening rubble and the swelling of the sky on the night he passed away. He'd have cried and turned and smiled if only he could have seen the book thief on her hands and knees, next to his decimated body. He'd have been glad to witness her kissing his dusty, bomb-hit lips.Yes, I know it.In the darkness of my dark-beating heart, I know. He'd have loved it all right.You see?Even death has a heart.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
There once was a girl who found herself dead.She peered over the ledge of heavenand saw that back on earthher sister missed her too much,was way too sad,so she crossed some pathsthat would not have crossed,took some moments in her handshook them upand spilled them like diceover the living world.It worked.The boy with the guitar collidedwith her sister."There you go, Len," she whispered. "The rest is up to you.
— Jandy Nelson, The Sky Is Everywhere
Stars," she whispered. "I can see the stars again, my lady."A tear trickled down Artemis's cheek. "Yes, my brave one. They are beautiful tonight."Stars," Zoe repeated. Her eyes fixed on the night sky. And she did not move again.
— Rick Riordan, The Titan's Curse
Anne, I don't want to live. . . . Now listen, life is lovely, but I Can't Live It. I can't even explain. I know how silly it sounds . . . but if you knew how it Felt. To be alive, yes, alive, but not be able to live it. Ay that's the rub. I am like a stone that lives . . . locked outside of all that's real. . . . Anne, do you know of such things, can you hear???? I wish, or think I wish, that I were dying of something for then I could be brave, but to be not dying, and yet . . . and yet to [be] behind a wall, watching everyone fit in where I can't, to talk behind a gray foggy wall, to live but to not reach or to reach wrong . . . to do it all wrong . . . believe me, (can you?) . . . what's wrong. I want to belong. I'm like a jew who ends up in the wrong country. I'm not a part. I'm not a member. I'm frozen.
— Anne Sexton, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
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
I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.It's just getting out of one car, and into another.
— John Lennon
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
— Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners
Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.
— Cornelia Funke, Inkdeath
A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTHI do not carry a sickle or scythe.I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold.And I don't have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
They tell us that Suicide is the greatest piece of Cowardice... That Suicide is wrong
—  when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in this world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
— Norman Cousins
But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.
— Mitch Albom, For One More Day
The phoenix must burn to emerge.
— Janet Fitch, White Oleander
We'd stared into the face of Death, and Death blinked first. You'd think that would make us feel brave and invincible. It didn't.
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone
— Richard Puz, The Carolinian
Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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
... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it.""Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'""Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo."The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ...""... is Locke ...""... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ...""... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.
— Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora
You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
I have outlasted all desire,My dreams and I have grown apart;My grief alone is left entire,The gleamings of an empty heart.The storms of ruthless dispensationHave struck my flowery garland numb,I live in lonely desolationAnd wonder when my end will come.Thus on a naked tree-limb, blastedBy tardy winter's whistling chill,A single leaf which has outlastedIts season will be trembling still.
— Alexander Pushkin
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub.
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet
My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.I counted.It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen, where trees made breezy canopies like a tunnel to Shangri-La. We were going to the ocean, hundreds of miles away, because I wanted to see the ocean and my father said that it was about time the four of us made that journey. I remember asking, 'What’s the difference between a trip and a journey?' and my father said, 'Narnie, my love, when we get there, you’ll understand,' and that was the last thing he ever said.
— Melina Marchetta, On the Jellicoe Road
I went down to the river,I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't,So I jumped in and sank.
— Langston Hughes
Choking with dry tears and raging, raging, raging at the absolute indifference of nature and the world to the death of love, the death of hope and the death of beauty, I remember sitting on the end of my bed, collecting these pills and capsules together and wondering why, why when I felt I had so much to offer, so much love, such outpourings of love and energy to spend on the world, I was incapable of being offered love, giving it or summoning the energy with which I knew I could transform myself and everything around me.
— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
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
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us,as it should.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die" --- and find that there is no death.
— Eckhart Tolle
A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
— Horace Mann
Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life.
— Maria V. Snyder, Storm Glass
I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.
— Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...
— Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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
I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.
— Roger Zelazny, Frost & Fire
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.", The New Yorker, July 7, 1986]
— Jorge Luis Borges
Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams. I've heard people talk about the sleep of the dead. Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that's what it's like, I wouldn't mind. If that's what dying is like, I wouldn't mind that at all.
— Gayle Forman, If I Stay
Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
— George Gordon Byron
Even in the grave, all is not lost.
— Edgar Allan Poe
A piece of me is gone," she told me once while we were bra shopping. "I think we're made up of all these different pieces and every time someone goes, you're left with less of yourself.
— Melina Marchetta, Saving Francesca
. . . owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.
— John Grogan, Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
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
It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind to say goodbye.
— Kristin Cashore, Fire
How could the death of someone you had never met affect you so?
— Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo's Calling
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death.
— Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.
— John Steinbeck, East of Eden
He: What’s the matter with you?Me: Nothing.Nothing was slowly clotting my arteries. Nothing slowly numbing my soul. Caught by nothing, saying nothing, nothingness becomes me. When I am nothing they will say surprised in the way that they are forever surprised, "but there was nothing the matter with her.
— Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
— Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
— Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me," Will said, his bloody hand on the hilt of the dagger. " And you are still with me. When I breath, I will think of you, for without you I would have been dead years ago. When I wake up and when I sleep, when I lift up my hands to defend myself or when I lie down to die, you will be with me. You say we are born again. I say there is a river that divides the dead and the living. What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so we can cross together." Will took a deep breath and let go of the knife. He drew his hand back. The cut on his palm was already healing- the result of the half dozen iratzes on his skin. " You hear that, James Carstairs? We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. Forever." He rose to his feet and looked down at the knife. The knife was Jem's, the blood was his. This spot of ground, whether he could ever find it again, whether he lived to try, would be theirs.He turned around to walk to Balios, towards Wales and Tessa. He did not look back.
— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Princess
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being