Quote by Joanna Trollope

“We often give others the tools for our own demise.”

— Warren Cassell Jr

“don’t know why it is given to us to be so mortal and to feel so much. It is a cruel trick, and glorious.”

— Louise Erdrich

“When you have such a close brush with death, life seems that much more valuable.”

— Keith Foskett

“I have worked tirelessly to understand why so many bright, smart, capable individuals remain snared in the death grip of the nonessential.”

— Greg McKeown

“Some people are given relatively fair lives. But others-they carry the burden of the unfairness of the world.”

— David Levithan

“It is surmounting difficulties that make heros.”

— Louis Kossuth

“I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sandcastles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to…

— Markus Zusak

“Death is an insatiable creature with greedy hands.”

— C. J. Redwine

“Futility. Uselessness. Bloody entrophy. Death matters, at least sometimes.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“Its natural to overlook and even sacrifice the things that belong to us most easily, most gracefully.”

— Ann Brashares

“Classifiable things reek of death. You must strike out in other spheres . . . quit the ranks. That's the sign of masterpieces and…

— Jean Cocteau

“Except that death collected everyone. Death is like that. Relentlessly efficient.”

— Jonathan Maberry