“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It is the transition that’s troublesome” — Isaac Asimov

Gradually, I found myself living more out of a love for life rather than from a fear of dying.

Estimating how many days you have left to live (don’t)

“I had suicidal thoughts when I was young. I fancied myself as a melancholic; quite a lot of people do — it’s a fashionable thing. Anyway, all these ideas were coming to me when I was going to sleep, ideas of self-destruction. They all promptly vanished the moment I was under real threat. There was a sudden urge to live. I wanted to do more, to write more.”
—Clive James

“We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.” ― Lauren DeStefano, Sever

“And to live only once–
What if that’s not enough?”

― Gregory Orr, Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved

“I want enough time to be in love with everything.”

Marina Keegan