Jim Butcher Quotes

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

One thing about pain: It proves you're alive.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death.

There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.

I write about living, not dying.

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

The living are more important than the dead.

What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit.