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If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.

— Caroline Paul

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.

— Rick Warren

I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

— George Matthew Adams

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

— Sting

When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.

— Marilyn Manson

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next. But then you turn out not to be. But then again, you could be.

— Nora Ephron

I have a strong preference for being alive.

— Alan Alda

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

— Kurt Cobain

✗Opposing Perspectives

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

— Michel Onfray

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

— Jose Saramago