#death

Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind. ↗

— Katherine Owen

#heroine-s-journey #loss #love #romance #death

Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act. ↗

— Damien Echols

#curiosity #god #mysterious #death

That was how people got through life, he supposed: by acknowledging death and telling it, “Not today. ↗

— Molly Ringle

#life #philosophy-of-life #survival #death

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#humor #death

Most men fear getting laughed at or humiliated by a romantic prospect while most women fear rape and death. ↗

— Gavin de Becker

#fear #feminism #gender #men #rape

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. ↗

— John Milton

#eternity #golden #key #opens #palace

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. ↗

— Ruth Ann Minner

#add #benjamin #benjamin franklin #certain #certainty

I have trespassed upon your time too long. I will take my departure with a thousand thanks for your amibility. Not at all. I wish you would have had a bannana. You are most amiable ↗

— Agatha Christie

#death

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#death #father #death

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90) ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#death #eternity #life #now #art