#death

Assim é, mas a vantagem da igreja é que, embora às vezes o não pareça, ao gerir o que está no alto, governa o que está em baixo. ↗

— José Saramago

#religion #death

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#death

Fifty million people die every year, six thousand die every hour, and over one hundred people die every minute. But when thousands of people die in the same place and at the same time, we are more likely to wonder why God would allow such a thing to happen. ↗

— Steve Farrar

#death #tragedy #death

Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down below? Why does she have a veil over her face? Could it be that when we forcefully bring back to life what has been lost through love what we get is only a shate of its former reality? Maybe we can never succeed fully in restoring the soul to life. Maybe she will always be veiled and at least partially shielded from the rigors of actual life. Love demands a submission that is total. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#death #love #submission #death

The price for using dark magic is death, so that goes a long way toward deterring users. ↗

— Devon Monk

#death

If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#afterworld #death #death

[Like they say,] small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. ↗

— Dave Courtney

#death

If I were facing a firing squad, I’d ask them to hold on just one second, because I have a wedgie and it is very uncomfortable. Let me adjust myself, and then you can shoot me. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#change

Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#death

There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their affairs from there. ↗

— Mildred Armstrong Kalish

#family #death