#death

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. ↗

— Christopher Fry

#birth #brushes #death #may #moth

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#existentialism #death

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#begin #birth #body #build #connected

Roarke, what's going on here?' 'Lieutenant.' He leaned forward, touched his lips to hers. 'Indications are we're having a romance. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#naked-in-death #roarke #death

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #life-and-death #death

Let your hope of heaven master your fear of death. ↗

— William Gurnall

#fear #heaven #hope #master #your

And when [Bëor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#elves #man #middle-earth #age

She couldn't tell where his pupils ended and the irises began; looking into those eyes was like looking into a well where children had drowned. ↗

— MaryJanice Davidson

#death

To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace. ↗

— Washington Irving

#peace #death

Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is. ↗

— Mary Roach

#death