#at

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death. ↗

— Plato

#plato #socrates #death

Before he lets me go, he tells me what life looks like. "There's the walk into battle. The battle itself. And the walk away." It's a cycle we repeat. Every day. Sometimes it's over small stuff. Sometimes it's life and death. ↗

— Suzanne Phillips

#death

Nevješt sam razgovoru sa ženama, pogotovo sa ženama njene ljepote i njenih godina. Oko trideset, čini mi se. Mlade djevojke zamišljaju život i vjeruju riječima. Starice se boje smrti i s uzdahom slušaju o raju. Ovakve znaju vrijednost svega što gube i dobijaju, i uvijek imaju svoje razloge, koji mogu biti čudni, ali su rijetko naivni. Njihove zrele oči su slobodne i kad se obaraju, neugodno otvorene, i kad se skrivaju trepavicama. Najneugodnije je što znamo da one znaju više nego što pokazuju, i da nas mjere svojim neobičnim mjerilima, koja teško saznajemo. ↗

— Meša Selimović

#death

We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising. ↗

— Lynn Schooler

#nature-of-things #wind #home

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. ↗

— Albert Camus

#growth #motivation #freedom

Becky was a weed.  Nobody ever wanted them taking over the bigger, prettier plants.  People went to all extremes to make them go away.  They sprayed poison, pulled until the roots gave way. They felt only like their garden was complete when every tendril was extirpated.  This was how she felt from birth. ↗

— Ruth McLeod-Kearns

#death #drama #family #flowers #love

Marah will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys… show them these words when they can’t remember me. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#inspirational #remember #death

If you jotted down all of my ill-thought out comments, you could write a book entitled, Guide to Getting Punched in the Throat for Boneheads-Mad Hatter in "Death of the Mad Hatter" (Coming Soon!) ↗

— Sarah J. Pepper

#alice-in-wonderland #humor #love #paranormal #romance

The death has an only color. ↗

— Sabrina Benulis

#archon #demons #love #sci-fi #urban-fantasy

Don't normal people run in the rain? Even abnormal people, most of them anyway, the only people I can think of who walk in the rain are tree buffers, bag ladies, and total psychos. ↗

— Lisa O'Donnell

#rain #death