„Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.“

„When you have been close to death it makes you think about life.“

—  Patrick Dixon, libro Building a Better Business

Building a Better Business (2005)

„High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.“

—  Kurt Vonnegut American writer 1922 - 2007

Introduction to Our Time Is Now: Notes From the High School Underground, John Birmingham, ed. (1970)
Various interviews

„Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.“

—  Epicurus, Carta a Meneceo

Original: (el) τὸ φρικωδέστατον οὖν τῶν κακῶν ὁ θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς͵ ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν͵ ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν͵ ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ͵ τόθ΄ ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν.

„I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.“

—  Asif Ali Zardari politician in Pakistan 1955

Zardari at an interview of Newsweek, answering about his presidency http://www.newsweek.com/qa-asif-ali-zardari-pervez-musharrafs-resignation-88063

„We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration“

—  Peter Redgrove English writer 1932 - 2003

„Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.“

—  Paulo Coelho, libro El alquimista

Fuente: The Alchemist

„I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual“

—  Virginia Woolf English writer 1882 - 1941

„Keep death and exile daily before thine eyes, with all else that men deem terrible, but more especially Death. Then wilt thou never think a mean thought, nor covet anything beyond measure.“

—  Epictetus philosopher from Ancient Greece 50 - 138

161

„The death of our close friends and relatives proves that how close the death is to us!“

—  Javad Alizadeh cartoonist, journalist and humorist 1953

Quoted in Humor & Caricature (January 1996), p. 3

„I hate God and I hate life. And the closer I come to death, the more I hate life.“

—  Joseph Heller, libro God Knows

God Knows (1984)

„In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual, you are left…with a foolish grin.“

—  Emil M. Cioran, libro Del inconveniente de haber nacido

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

„For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.“

—  Gabriel García Márquez Colombian writer 1927 - 2014

„Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath,
The clam'rous lapwings feel the leaden death;
Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare,
They fall, and leave their little lives in air.“

—  Alexander Pope, libro Windsor Forest

Fuente: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 131.

„Then there is this idea that the world owes you a living. Here is a little thought about that. It isn't particularly logical but it makes my point. You were paid when you were born, with the privilege of living. Death is all that is coming to you. Life came to you when you were born.“

—  John Sloan American painter 1871 - 1951

Ibid., p. 27.
The Gist of Art (1939)

„I'm wishing he could see that music lives. Forever. That it's stronger than death. Stronger than time. And that its strength holds you together when nothing else can.“

—  Jennifer Donnelly, libro Revolution

Fuente: Revolution

„What kind of life have you lived little one? Where fair has anything to do with it? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

„Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come“

—  William Shakespeare, Julio César

Fuente: Julius Caesar

„We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.“

—  Chuck Klosterman, libro Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

Fuente: Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

„The business of the Christian is nothing else than to be ever preparing for death“

—  Irenaeus Bishop and saint 130 - 202

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