Orson Scott Card Quotes

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Death is not a word to fear, any more than birth is.

To live is to die.

When one's dead, one's dead... This squirrel will become earth all in his time. And still later on, there'll grow new trees from him, with new squirrels skipping about in them. Do you think that's so very sad?

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.

Not even old age knows how to love death.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Life is apogee, apex, decline; life is death - and everything else is open to discussion.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

Death is just a part of life, you know? It's what makes all of life more vibrant. It's coming whether we want to accept it or not.

Part of being alive is dying as well.

You live you die and death not ends it.

In living we die, in dying we live.

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.