#death

I have been here before as a spirit - this is just my physical body, it is just an overcoat. And at death, you will take the overcoat off. ↗

— Glenn Hoddle

#before #body #death #here #i

I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some! ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#emmanuel #lost-at-sea #love #missing #storm

Could he be prosecuted for murder? Cause of death: broken heart. Murder weapon: words laced with bullshit. ↗

— Julie Prestsater

#heartbreak #hurt #love-hurts #death

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#light #death

No one on his deathbed ever said, I wish I had spent more time on my business. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#deathbed #ever #had #his #i

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#death #had #i #if i could #liberty

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#creates #death #destroying #destroys #extinguished

It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#death #education #enable #preventable #put

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#act #amount #daily #daily lives #death

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life #resigned #us