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If death petrifies you, do something to ensure your likeness will survive in more than just photographs. Drown yourself in a swamp. ↗

— Bauvard

#fossils #funny #humor #death

I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man, I give up. Come and get me. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#giving-up #death

my dragon? save anybody? you must have have him confused with someone else- Smaug perhaps?... ↗

— Margaret Weis

#smaug #zifnab #death

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#death #decadence #funerals #death

Živi što ljepše, ali tako da te nije stid. I radije pristani da te Bog pita: zašto nisi to učinio? ↗

— Meša Selimović

#living-life #living-life-to-the-fullest #death

He reflected that what is important is not things, but the meaning we give to things. Sooner or later death comes for everyone. More important than putting off death, is giving it a meaning. ↗

— Silvana De Mari

#death

You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions. ↗

— Karen Blixen

#africa #life #life

Its important to be comfortable with uncertainty. ↗

— Xiaolu Guo

#life #wisdom #life

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#death

May all that have life be delivered from suffering ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#kindness #life #life