#death

Imagine a world where everything is free, then seek counseling. That’s too much death to be thinking about. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #humor #money #death

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again. ↗

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

#funeral #death

It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him; love is not enough to keep any of us alive. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#love #wither #death

My dreams are going through their death flurries. I thought they were all safely buried, but sometimes they stir in their grave, making my heartstrings twinge. I mean no particular dream, you understand, but the whole radiant flock of them together—with their rainbow wings, iridescent, bright, soaring, glorious, sublime. They are dying before the steel javelins and arrows of a world of Time and Money. ↗

— Barbara Newhall Follett

#growing-up #life #death

There comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is that of knowing whether two and two do make four. ↗

— Albert Camus

#death

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#death #fear #death

The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning. ↗

— Kevin Williamson

#poet #stefan #death

And when suddenly the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry, uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ – she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who? ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#forgetting #memory #mythology #death

Death is more uni­ver­sal than life; everyone dies but not every­one lives. ↗

— Alan Sachs

#death

I'll keep peace at all cost, even if I choke to death on my tongue. ↗

— Paula Deen

#cost #death #even #i #keep