Veronica Roth Quotes

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.

Death is an absolute marvel.

It is not that death comes, but that life leaves.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

I hold the view that death is rather like changing one's clothes when they are torn and old. It is not an end in itself. Yet death is unpredictable-you do not know when and howT it will take place.

When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die.

We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.

There is nothing glamorous about death.

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.

God, life changes faster than you think.

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

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

The life of day before yesterday has departed today.

It is only the dead who do not return.

Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.

I'm hyper-focused on loss. But I know it's just the impermanence of being here.