#death

My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers! ↗

— Meg Cabot

#dad #dating #death #few #inspiration

Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble. ↗

— Michael Cacoyannis

#belt #boss #death #life #look

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#accept #death #find #go #i

The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#change

The tragedy of Tupac is that his untimely passing is representative of too many young black men in this country....If we had lost Oprah Winfrey at 25, we would have lost a relatively unknown, local market TV anchorwoman. If we had lost Malcolm X at 25, we would have lost a hustler named Detroit Red. And if I had left the world at 25, we would have lost a big-band trumpet player and aspiring composer--just a sliver of my eventual life potential. ↗

— Quincy Jones

#lost-potential #death

We all have same beginning (BIRTH), and we will have same ending (DEATH). So how different can we be? ↗

— Mitch Albom

#morrie #tuesdays #with #death

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#dead #life #living #memory #placed

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them? ↗

— Willie Aames

#death #found #get #i #i see

It was a time when only the dead smiled, happy in their peace. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#dead #happy #only #peace #smiled

Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn. ↗

— Anna Akhmatova

#chose #concern #death #deny #does