Life Quote by Gwendolyn Brooks

“This tiny moment. In between the time you decide to pull a trigger and the time death arrives. There's just you and it and…

— Amie Kaufman

“It all keeps coming back in flashes. Churns you, burns you till it turns you into ashes.”

— Richa Pandey

“We're in the Maker's keeping. Even if we die trying, death is just another way out. But you? You'll just turn to dust.”

— Andrew Peterson

“Time...which is eternity in disguise.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“...only the exhaustive can be truly interesting.”

— Thomas Mann

“nothing exciting ever happens, so you stop thinking it's going to. and then something does happen, and you miss it. completely. ”

— Catherine Clark

“...this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing…

— Hilary Mantel

“It doesn’t matter whether you’re the one having to douse a flame or helplessly watching it sputter. Either way, it goes out eventually.”

— Sarah Dessen

“Majid gave me a brief dazzling golden stare and then half-lidded his eyes again. I know when my life is being threatened.”

— Robin McKinley

“Reliving his degradation had struck some spark in him and it was glowing now like a blown-on coal.”

— Walter Kirn

“Apparently, when faced with impending death, I completely lose my shit.”

— Elle Casey

“It is not of death itself I am afraid, but rather that it should take all that is mine.”

— Nikolaj Thylkjær