Holly Lisle Quotes

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

But what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?" "That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.

Dying's a boring side effect.

How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back?

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset cos' they act like people", said Adam severely. "Anyway, if you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.

If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.

Don't die until you're dead.

I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it. They have n't got life enough in them.... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began.

Death without the possibility of ever changing the world is the same as a life that never was.

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

You are not just a meaningless fragment in an alien universe, briefly suspended between life and death, allowed a few short-lived pleasures followed by pain and ultimate annihilation.

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.