Creative nonfiction Quote by Annie Dillard

“I cannot think without a shudder of contracting any obligation towards death. I hate death; for, happy or miserable, life is the only blessing…

— Giacomo Casanova

“The only thing that's unavoidable is death. The only issue is, will you avoid living just to stay alive.”

— Kaia Michaelis

“I learned that sometimes you must be willing to lose something precious to you in order to escape and to endure - that no…

— Galen Beckett

“Sometimes I think the dead have it easy. The difficult part is staying alive, and more than that, wanting to stay alive.”

— Andrea Busfield

“We all must face death and walk with it. But we also must love and live in it.”

— Rolando Mithcell

“Life in general was cruel and offered only different types of voids and chaos. The only way to tolerate it, to have any hope…

— Lucy Grealy

“There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult.…

— Jowita Bydlowska

“...but I know that I can survive the hard times, taking the worst of what happens to me as a burden but not as…

— Nina Sankovitch

“You’d be a part of my life. My world. You’d get hard and cunning to survive, or you’d stay gentle and die.”

— C.D. Reiss

“I don't suppose it would help if I told you that is the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all…

— Cassandra Clare

“But in reality, when faced with death and the great unknown that came after, my survival instinct snatched wildly at whatever lifeline was offered.…

— Julie Kagawa

“So often we refuse to accept death as a part of living.”

— Ray Price Billy