Contrast Quote by Edith Wharton

“Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious”

— Yann Martel

“Death looks different when you know that death is not an end; when we realize that death is a passage of really the most…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A pleasing paradox — The more frequently we contemplate our death, the less dominant its effect in our lives becomes. Like King Mithridates, who…

— Giannis Delimitsos

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most…

— John Steinbeck

The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your…

— Ram Dass

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

— Charlotte Bronte

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

— Seneca the Younger

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours…

— Yann Martel

When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I am not in the least surprised that your impression of death becomes more lively, in proportion as age and infirmity bring it nearer.…

— Francois Fenelon

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.

— Guy de Maupassant

Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the…

— Dean Koontz