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Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

— Raymond Carver

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Angela Carter

What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the people you care about in this world. That's what counts in this life.

— Brian Dennehy

Ideas matter. The world matters. Our lives matter, and the choices we make as we navigate our lives perhaps matter most of all.

— Lauren Myracle

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

— Epicurus

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

— Tite Kubo

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.

— Patrick Kavanagh

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

— Alice Walker

✗Opposing Perspectives

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

— Jeanette Winterson

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

— Jackie Robinson