Quote by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“Mortality is not kind, and do not let anyone tell you it is.”

— James Lee Burke

“I do not intend to tip-toe through life, but to arrive safely at death.”

— Christina Aguilera

“I do not intend to tiptoe through life to arrive safely at death.”

— M.M. Gavillet

“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle…

— Annie Dillard

“I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone.”

— Tim Kreider

“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

“I will take a new approach to death, because what is important about death is not the dead. It’s the living. Those of us…

— Jael McHenry

“We, who should know better, reinforce every patient's desire to hide from the reality of his own mortality.”

— Michael J. Collins

“Don’t concern yourself with death. Immerse yourself in life.”

— Van Dog Sees God

“We can't just have everything without complications, you and I. There'd be no story without complications. With nothing to overcome, we'd die unstoried deaths.”

— Adam Levin

“I’ll not have you bleeding to death on me. That would be just like you, to die and leave me the work of burying…

— Robert Jordan

“As you climb to success over the dead, don't alienate the living.”

— Kris Waldherr