#death

Live, die, something else lives. The very soil humanity walks upon is built up from death. Digging into a flowerbed means digging into bones. ↗

— M. Jones

#death #frankie-and-formaldehyde #gallows-humor #life #death

Most people believe that all you have to do to get to heaven is to die! That's NOT what the bible says. You MUST be BORN AGAIN. Read it for yourself! (John 3:3) ↗

— Paul R Kovatch

#death

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#life-and-death #death

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#death #eternity #life #now #art

Death, is a beautiful conclusion to these short stories, that which we have so interestingly entitled, lives. ↗

— Kiar

#conclusion #death #lives #short-stories #beauty

The Mozart sonata Dad picked out begins to play. When we hear the first note, we open the sacks and the ladybugs escape through the opening, taking flight. It's as if someone has dumped rubies from heaven. Soon they will land on the plants in search of bollworm eggs. But right now they are magic-red ribbons flying over our heads, weaving against the pink sky, dancing up there with Mozart. ↗

— Kimberly Willis Holt

#death #friendship #spirituality #vietnam-war #age

I mean, the death in the late eighties and early nineties really shook out a lot of hacks. The pond just sort of dried up for a lot of really bad comedians. ↗

— Patton Oswalt

#comedians #death #dried #early #eighties