#death

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#death-sentence #different #death

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#humanity #people #resilience #death

He, the Life of all, our Lord and Saviour, did not arrange the manner of his own death lest He should seem to be afraid of some other kind. No. He accepted and bore upon the cross a death inflicted by others, and those other His special enemies, a death which to them was supremely terrible and by no means to be faced; and He did this in order that, by destroying even this death, He might Himself be believed to be the Life, and the power of death be recognised as finally annulled. A marvellous and mighty paradox has thus occurred, for the death which they thought to inflict on Him as dishonour and disgrace has become the glorious monument to death's defeat. ↗

— St. Athanasius of Alexandria

#death #incarnation #jesus #resurrection #death

Believe it or not each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die ↗

— John Keating

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In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#death

I sit with my knees pulled in tight and my arms wrapped around my shins. I can no longer feel my feet, as if blood refuses to spread so far from my heart. ↗

— Carrie Ryan

#loss #death

How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort. IN PAIRS. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end. ↗

— László Krasznahorkai

#despair #warnings #death

One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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