Life and death proverbs

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◆ We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life.

- Michel de Montaigne98

◆ We live, we love, we let it go.

- Kevin Dalton98

◆ You think that it's not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn't make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We're all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic's just a little different from yours, that's all.

- Charlaine Harris98

◆ Life dies but forever will there be music. Always.

- Nicholas A. McGirr98

◆ There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

- George Santayana98

◆ If your life was complete, you'd be dead.

- Joshua Wisenbaker98

◆ When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

- Adam Selzer98

◆ Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

- Gayle Forman98

◆ Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

- Gabriel Garcí-a Márquez98

◆ I am Josephine Darly, and I intend to live forever.

- Tessa Gratton98

◆ It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

- Virginia Woolf98

◆ I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man's puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one.

- Robertson Davies98

◆ I waited patiently for the Lord and He inclined unto me and He heard my cry. He lifted me out of the horrible pit, out of the miry clay,and He has set my feet upon a ROCK and He established my steps, and He has given me a a new song even praise unto our God; many shall see it and fear and shall trust in the Lord...the first 3 lines of an ancient Hebrew song Psalm 40:1-3

- King David98

◆ Death truly does have life, and walks with and lives through us everyday.

- Nicholas A. McGirr98

◆ Some had come to look upon death as a mercy. Death meant warmth. Death was light. Life was cruel, cold, heavy and dark. Life was pain. Death was deliverance, and many would welcome it. Others doggedly clung to life and willed themselves to walk on.

- Sage Steadman98