#death

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#inspirational #philosophy #poetry #age

Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #life #age

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. ↗

— John Hersey

#books #death #hiroshima #japan #ways-to-die

God grants an easy death only to the just. ↗

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

#easy #god #god grants #grants #just

Every civilian's death diminishes us, collectively. ↗

— David Petraeus

#collectively #death #diminishes #every #us

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness. ↗

— Ronald Blythe

#death #die #drag #final #itself

Death does not exist. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#does #exist

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion. ↗

— Samuel Fuller

#death #emotion #great #only #survival

I'm what you call a deathbed Catholic. ↗

— Broderick Crawford

#catholic #deathbed #i #you

Virtue alone has majesty in death. ↗