Literature is the best way to overcome death.

Literature is the best way to overcome death. My father, as I said, is an actor. He's the happiest man on earth when he's…

— Ilan Stavans

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly…

— Paulo Coelho

The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

“Moreover, most faiths turned death into the main source of meaning in life. Try to imagine Islam, Christianity or the ancient Egyptian religion in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

You must overcome death by finding God in it.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

— Edgar Cayce

“To physically overcome death – is that not the goal? – we must think the unthinkable thoughts and ask unanswerable questions. Yet we must…

— Tom Robbins

“Easter? We’re paying more attention to dying than to death. We’re more concerned to get over the act of dying than to overcome death.…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“We don’t need to wait for the Second Coming in order to overcome death. A couple of geeks in a lab can do it.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If you can overcome love, you can overcome fear. If you can overcome fear, you can overcome death.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“[Literature is] the best way of telling the truth; it’s a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any…

— Julian Barnes

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.

— Dawn Angelique

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

— JJ Feild

“Great Literature is help for humans. It is medicine of the highest order. In a more aware culture, writers would be considered priests. And,…

— Alice Walker

I think literature is best when it's voicing what we would prefer not to talk about.

— Rick Moody