„And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, / No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.“

— Walt Whitman

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„Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand!“
— Richard Bach
„A coward dies a thousand times before his death, but the valiant taste of death but once. It seems to me most strange that men should fear, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come.“
— William Shakespeare
„I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.“
— Thomas Wolfe
„If you cannot love me, I will die. Before you came I wanted to die, I have told you many times. It is cruel to have made me want to live only to make my death more bloody.“
— James Baldwin
„"I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know.""I know. Every time you almost die, I almost die myself."“
— Cassandra Clare
„Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.“
— Marcus Aurelius