#death

Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage; you're just playin' yourself. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#egotism #quotes-to-live-by #selfish #death

Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow, long march to the grave. Who said that? She couldn’t remember now. But it was true. They were born dying. If they were very lucky, the dying was called aging. They reached toward if as if they were satellites in unstable orbits. And then when they got there, they were just dead. One moment in time separated the living from the ghosts. ↗

— Michelle Sagara West

#death #guilt #loss #silence #age

Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#death #life #love #tragedy #art

God grants an easy death only to the just. ↗

— Svetlana Alliluyeva

#easy #god #god grants #grants #just

Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner. ↗

— Frank Dobson

#britain #cause #causes #death #dying

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear and another hand reaches out to take up our arms. ↗

— Che Guevara

#arms #battle #cry #death #ear

Love is when you love someone’s spirit as much as their body, even if their spirit has departed and their body is buried wherever you hid it. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#death #dying #funny #humor #love

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. ↗

— Colum McCann

#death #endings #growing-older #living-life #problems

I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same. ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#age

We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A chill, say, or a little slip on the cliff side. I feel as fragile as a dried flower. I rattle a little in the moving air, but I'm only coherent dust-a shape of what once was. My essence is going. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#death #age