关于生死的20条深刻语录

1. No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away.—Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

1. 当一个人留在世上的最后一丝涟漪都消失殆尽的时候，他才算真正的死亡。——特里•普拉切特《灵魂收割者》

2. “Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?—Epicurus

2. “为什么要害怕死亡？若我还在，死亡就不存在；若死亡存在，我便已经消失。为什么我要害怕并不存在的事物呢？——伊比鸠鲁

3. “If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death—Samuel Butler

3. “如果不把活着当回事，那么面对死亡又有何惧？——塞缪尔•巴特勒

4. “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forget life, to be at peace. —Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

4. “逝去是如此美好。躺在褐色柔软的泥土里，小草在你头顶上摇曳，聆听着安静的沉默。没有昨天，也没有明天。忘记时间，忘记一切，享受着永恒的安宁。——奥斯卡• 王尔德《古堡守护灵》

5. The ones that love us never really leave us.—Sirius Black, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

5. 爱我们的人绝不会真正离我们而去。——小天狼星布莱克《哈利波特与阿兹卡班的囚徒》

6. “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. ―Ernest Hemingway

6. “每个人的生命结局都是一样的。彼此间的差异只在于是怎样的生，又是怎样的死这些细节上面。——欧内斯特•海明威

7. “Life asked death, ‘Why do people love me but hate you?’ Death responded, ‘Because you are a beautiful lie and I am a painful truth.—Author unknown

7. “生命对死亡说，‘为什么人们都喜欢我而讨厌你？’死亡回答道，‘因为你是一个美丽的谎言，而我却是一个悲伤的事实。——佚名

8. “It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again.—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: Second Series

8. “这就是世界万物生存的奥秘：它们不会死亡，只是从我们的视线中消失一段时间，然后再次出现。——拉尔夫•瓦尔多•艾默生《论文集》第二集

9. Death is not the opposite of life, but the part of it.—Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

9. 死亡并不是生命的对立面，而是它的一部分。——村上春树《盲柳，及睡女》

10. “End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

10. “结束？不，这不是生命的终点。死亡只是生命的另一段旅途，是我们都将要走的旅程。当人世间的灰色雨幕拉开，所见将是一片银白透明。那时，你就会看见它。——J.R.R.托尔金《魔戒三部曲：王者归来》

11. It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.—J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

11. “当面对死亡和黑暗的时候，我们所害怕的仅仅是未知，再没有其它了。——J.K.罗琳《哈利波特与混血王子》

12. “Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.—Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

12. “只有人类丈量时间。也正因为这样，只有人类才要承受其它任何生物无需面对的巨大的恐惧：恐惧时间不够用。——米奇•阿尔博姆《时光守护者》

13. There are far far better things ahead than any we leave behind.—C.S. Lewis

13. 在未来等待着我们的，远远比留在过去的要更美好。——C.S,路易斯

14. “They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.—Banksy

14. “人们说，一个人会经历两次死亡。一次是当你停止呼吸的时候，第二次则是在那之后某个人最后一次提起你名字的时候。——班克斯

15. “Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you—Welcome to Night Vale

15. “只有在你把自己当做故事的主角时，死亡才是结局。——《欢迎来到夜谷》

16. “I have come to know that it [death] is an important thing to keep in mind — not to complain or to make melancholy, but simply because only with the honest knowledge that one day I will die I can ever truly begin to live.—R.A. Salvatore, The Halfling’s Gem

16. “我已经意识到必须要把‘死亡’当成一件重要的事印在脑海里——并不是为了抱怨或者无病呻吟，而是因为只有我清楚明白有一天我将会死去，我才会真正开始生活。——R.A.萨尔瓦多《半身人的宝石》

17. “Death is but a door, time is but a window. I’ll be back!—Ghostbusters II

17. “死亡不过是一扇门，时间不过是一扇窗。我终究会回来的！——《魔鬼克星Ⅱ》

18. “You needn’t die happy when your time comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from the beginning to the end …—Stephen King, The Dark Tower

18. “当期限来临的时候，你不必开心地接受，但你必须以一种满足的心态去面对，因为你已经从头到尾活过了一次……——史蒂芬•金《黑暗塔》

19. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.—Mark Twain

19. 一个充分享受了生活的人随时都准备好面对死亡。——马克•吐温

20. “How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?—Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

20. “那些依旧活在世人心中的人并没有真正死去。——卡森•麦卡勒斯《心是孤独的猎手》