#death

When I lived here and woke up from the fog in my head, I would walk by myself to the grave site set aside for me, so that I could feel comfortable if I lived there after death. ↗

— Kyung-Sook Shin

#death #grave #seeking-comfort #death

الخلودَ حِليَةُ من يعي لا من يتكاثر ↗

— ليلى الجهني

#death #life #death

Eve engaged her On Duty sign and stepped out of the car. Immediately her ears were assaulted with a blast of music. Christmas carols pumped, full blast, into the air. She decided that people ran inside, ready to buy anything, just to escape the noise. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#escape #eve-dallas #death

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#humor #death

If Jesus had been an actual historical figure we have a thorny paradox. Either this Jesus was a remarkable individual who said and did a host of amazing, revolutionary things – but no one outside his fringe cult noticed for over a century. Or he didn’t – and yet shortly after his death, tiny communities of worshipers that cannot agree about the most basic facts of his life spring up, scattered all across the empire. The truth is inescapable: there simply could never have been a historical Jesus. ↗

— David Fitzgerald

#christianity #history #jesus-myth #death

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority. ↗

— Michael Baden

#authority #been #comes #death #get

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. ↗

— Edmund Spenser

#death #else #genius #monuments #outlive

Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass me or fail me, Dear Lord, but don't make me go through high school again. Odd: If there's something we want so bad in this life but we can't have it, maybe we could get it the next time around. Chief Porter: Or maybe not getting it, accepting less without bitterness and being grateful for what we have is a part of what we're here to learn. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#reincarnation #death

Without death, life would have no boundaries and our days would not be so precious. My mother was a firm believer in the common sense of nature. ↗

— Bernadette Pajer

#life #death

Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies ↗

— Yasmine Galenorn

#enemies #words #death