#death

I look back to where my life had been. It's always risky to think of letting go. That's why this is the perfect ending. Nothing left to reconcile. ↗

— Loretta Ellsworth

#life #loss #love #relationships #transplant

There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time. ↗

— Seth Grahame-Smith

#vampires #war #death

He died a modern death, in hospital,........after medical science had prolonged his life to a point where the terms on which it was being offered were unimpressive. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#death

Pulvis et umbra sumus. (We are but dust and shadow.) ↗

— Horace

#dust #greek #latin #life #shadow

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. ↗

— Socrates

#death

May be able to die those who didn't know how to live ↗

— Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage

#life #death

People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." - ↗

— Deb Caletti

#profound #relationships #death

Even if you are alive somewhere, the absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence. Everything in the room, even the stars in the sky, can disappear in a second, changing one scene for another, just like in a dream. ↗

— Hwang Sŏk-yŏng

#death-of-a-loved-one #dreaming #hwang-sok-yong #loneliness #solitude

Always. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#lovers #death

There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#life #loss #death