#at

To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247) ↗

— Gregory Bassham

#harry-potter #life #living-life #philosophy #wisdom

...Matt. I didn't think they'd kill you... I'm so sorry... ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#matt #mello #death

Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw... ↗

— Roald Dahl

#old-man #death

Such was the love of this grandson for his grandmother that two years after the death of his mother, when she herself fell gravely ill, he vowed to her that someday he would try to tell the world her life story. 'But why?' she asked humbly. 'I'm no one, just a girl from the coast' 'But you are everyone, Grandma,' the young Pramoedya told her. 'You are all the people who have ever had to fight to make this life their own. ↗

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#death

By the day's end I realized that there were a zillion ways to apologize to someone, but none of them mattered if you never opened your mouth. ↗

— Jennifer Jabaley

#death-note #death

The real hell of this," he told her, "is that you're going to get through it. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#loss #death

I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death. Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

Deep hearts, sage minds, take life as God has made it; it is a long trial, an incomprehensible preparation for an unknown destiny. This destiny, the true one, begins for a man with the first step inside the tomb. Then something appears to him, and he begins to distinguish the definitive. The definitive, meditate upon that word. The living perceive the infinite; the definitive permits itself to be seen only by the dead. In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate. Woe, alas! to him who shall have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will deprive him of all. Try to love souls, you will find them again. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#death

How do you mourn something that never really belonged to you? ↗

— Rebecca Serle

#death #love #mourn #shakespeare #death

The scariest thing in the world is thinking someone you love is going to die. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#world #death