“What is living But fear”
“Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime”
“Any given moment—no matter how casual, how ordinary—is poised, full of gaping life.”
“Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.”
“…she isn’t sure a life spent here is worthy of the label of living.”
“Living because one enjoys being alive seems to me the very best reason.”
“I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.”
“Whatever sadness or disappointments I faced in my life the solution I always found was to go on living.”
“A lack of imagination results in a lack of living.”
“Though under earth, and throneless now I be Yet while I lived all earth was under me.”
“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.”
“Death twitches my ear; Live, he says... I m coming.”
“But I have my life, I’m living it. It’s twisted, exhausting, uncertain, and full of guilt, but nonetheless, there’s something there.”
“I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.”
“The only serious enterprise is living.”
“Living is too hard right now. Dying is easy. Let me die.”
“Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived?”