#death

One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#death

I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. ↗

— William Goldman

#fairness #life #love #wise-last-chapter #death

Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on him no hold. By the world he set small store-- He frightened it to the core-- Yet somehow, by Fate's plan, Though he'd lived a crazy man, When he died he was sane once more. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

#sanity #death

If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead. ↗

— Anthony Swofford

#disappointment #love #death

What about your crepe?" "Stuff It." "She's crazy about you," Mavis commented. "It's almost embarrassing, the way she fawns. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#fawns #roarke #death

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie. ↗

— Richard Wright

#lie #truth #death

I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears. ↗

— Josh Lanyon

#death

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#death-and-dying #god #hate #death

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? ↗

— Rumi

#fear #reincarnation #death

Lord help my poor soul. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#forgiveness #lord #mercy #soul #death