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How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.

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

You’ve thrown down the gauntlet. You’ve brought my wrath down upon your house. Now, to prove that I exist I must kill you. As the child outlives the father, so must the character bury the author. If you are, in fact, my continuing author, then killing you will end my existence as well. Small loss. Such a life, as your puppet, is not worth living. But… If I destroy you and your dreck script, and I still exist… then my existence will be glorious, for I will become my own master.

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

His life spells living. Your life or my life, apart from Him, spells death.

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.

Good thing I'm aging, otherwise I'd be dead.

I think about dying every day, because I can't stop thinking about living.

Now every mortal has pain and sweat is constant, but if there is anything dearer than being alive, it's dark to me. We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life. We know no other. The underworld's a blank and all the rest just fantasy.

The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.

The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don't die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.

Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living.

If some persons died and others did not die death would indeed be a terrible affliction.

Funerals aren't scheduled.

If life is worth living for so is it worth dying.

I Have Loved Hours at Sea I have loved hours at sea, gray cities, The fragile secret of a flower, Music, the making of a poem That gave me heaven for an hour; First stars above a snowy hill, Voices of people kindly and wise, And the great look of love, long hidden, Found at last in meeting eyes. I have loved much and been loved deeply— Oh when my spirit's fire burns low, Leave me the darkness and the stillness, I shall be tired and glad to go.