Because i can Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt

When I do stuff where death could be a real consequence, it makes me want to live right.

— Dean Potter

I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I'm not very good at being alive. Sometimes I despair of ever mastering it, getting it right. When I'm old, perhaps.

— Tanith Lee

I'm not going to die. If I'm going to die, it won't be now. So, I'm not going to limit myself. I will keep…

— Toots Hibbert

You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

— Seamus Heaney

I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The sum of all the things we shouldn't have done in our lives is enough to kill us with the weight.

— Tarryn Fisher

i'm sure i'm worth a lot more dead than alive

— Jodi Picoult

When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead.

— Ernest Hemingway

... I feel tired to death, paralyzed by this mysteriously wasted life's stubborn concentration on hopelessness and dissolution. It occurs to me that if…

— Christer Kihlman

I don't think you ever know your inner strength until you get told you are dying.

— Rob Burrow

Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless…

— Anonymous