#at

David Lawrence, founder of US News & World Report, warned, "Confiscation of wealth may satisfy the vengeful in us. It may sooth a retaliatory spirit. But it is the path of national suicide...There must always be the reward motive. To many people it is but another way to set goals of human ambition...When government kills the opportunity to earn, it sounds the death knell of the opportunity to serve. ↗

— Jim Powell

#death

At liminality, at a transitional point between his last night dream and reality, he realizes he has made a big mistake and happiness is possible without death. (Coming back to himself.) ↗

— Lara Biyuts

#dream #happiness #life #death

She slid open the box, extracted a match, and struck it with a flourish. The flame flared up in the gloom of the unlit room, a tiny golden beacon. For a moment, Oma Kristel held it aloft, then the unthinkable happened. The match slipped out of her fingers and fell straight onto her pink mohair bosom. With a whooomph! like the sounds of a gas furnace firing up, the hairspray with which Oma Kristel had doused herself ignited, obliterating her in a column of flames. ↗

— Helen Grant

#death

Being brave in front of faith does not mean to be humble before death. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#death

It comes down to this: we're pieces of equipment To be counted and signed for. On occasion some of us break down, And those parts which can't be salvaged Are replaced with other GI parts, that's all. ↗

— Rolando Hinojosa

#poetry #war #death

Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#death

Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#god #love #death

I believed in the faith of faith without acknowledging his quality of being an absolute truth. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#life #truth #wisdom #death

life is a gift, death is an obligation, both are equally important to be able to achieve good values ↗

— friesda

#death

Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy. ↗

— Paul P. Enns

#heaven #death