Libba Bray Quotes

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

Spending your days waiting to die is no way to live.

In this society, we don't like to face the future and the dying process and all of it. Most of us really don't want to think about it, but it's facing me in the mirror every day.

I thought, I'm going to die. And, thinking that, I was determined to live.

The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence . . .

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

I think dying is the ultimate high...

Life's only choosing when to die. Life's a big postponement because the choice is so difficult. It's a tremendous relief not to have to choose.

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.

Once in a while, when I'm alone, I think about my age. I think, How many more years do I have on this earth? But I can't really conceive of dying. Somehow, in my head, I don't think I'll die. I know that everybody dies, of course. I just think that it'll never come to me. It's crazy, but there it is.

I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.

The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

I'm gonna live till I die.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

Death is a very important part of life.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!