Maggie Stiefvater Quotes

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

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

Death is strong, but Life is stronger.

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

A death-blow is a life-blow to some Who, till they died, did not alive become; Who, had they lived, had died, but when They died, vitality begun.

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.

You will die not because you're ill, but because you're alive.

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead.

The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type.

He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

The ways in which things are superficially similar but also distinct is interesting to me.

Death is a very important part of life.

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

The body is never more alive than when it is dead; but it is alive in its units, and dead in its totality; alive as a congeries, dead as an organism.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.