“Living is the challenge. Not dying. Dying is so easy. Sometimes it only takes ten seconds to die. But living? That can take you eighty years and you do something in that time.”

“What the matter, Zarek? You afraid to die? (Thanatos)
Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

“Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.”

James Hetfield (1963) American musician, songwriter and record producer

“In living we die, in dying we live.”

Ted Dekker (1962) American writer

“Almost dying is awfully easy. It's the living that's hard.”

Jennifer L. Holm (1968) American children's writer

“It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” ~spoken by Augustus McCrae”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

“Dying is only one thing to be sad over. Living unhappily is something else.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

“You can choose to die. You can choose to run… but dying alone won't change a thing. Trust me on that one. If you really want things to change… you're going to have to live.”

Kazuya Minekura (1975) Japanese manga artist

“breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.”

Guy De Maupassant (1850–1893) French writer