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title: "5 Cheating Death Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [“We’re all carrying our coffins with us every day.” Or “We are all constantly cheating death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edwidge-danticat/we-re-all-carrying-our-coffins-with-us-every-day-or-we-are-all/)

[Edwidge Danticat](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edwidge-danticat/)

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> [Cheating death is not a game. It is a lifestyle we engage everyday until our hourglass runs out. Only then we will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cody-weiland/cheating-death-is-not-a-game-it-is-a-lifestyle-we-engage-everyday/)

[Cody Weiland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cody-weiland/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/222/cody-weiland-228878_death_cheating-death-is-not-a-game-it-is-a-lif_1082207.jpg)

> [And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzanne-collins/and-then-if-you-make-it-to-bedtime-you-feel-the-joy-of-cheating-death/)

[Suzanne Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzanne-collins/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/223/suzanne-collins-60_bedtime_and-then-if-you-make-it-to-bedtime-you-f_1199448.jpg)

> [In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maia-wojciechowska/in-spain-however-people-have-found-a-way-of-cheating-death-they/)

[Maia Wojciechowska](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maia-wojciechowska/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1cf/maia-wojciechowska-56166_afternoon_in-spain-however-people-have-found-a-way_2194602.jpg)

> [Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/suzanne-collins/every-day-when-i-wake-i-tell-myself-that-it-will-be-my-last-if-you/)

[Suzanne Collins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/suzanne-collins/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a0c/suzanne-collins-60_bedtime_every-day-when-i-wake-i-tell-myself-that_2690703.jpg)

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