#death

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas. ↗

— José Saramago

#death

Just when it seemed my mother couldn’t bear one more needle, one more insane orange pill, my sister, in silence, stood at the end of the bed and slowly rubbed her feet, which were scratchy with hard, yellow skin, and dirt cramped beneath the broken nails, which changed nothing in time except the way my mother was lost in it for a while as if with a kind of relief that doesn’t relieve. And then, with her eyes closed, my mother said the one or two words the living have for gratefulness, which is a kind of forgetting, with a sense of what it means to be alive long enough to love someone. Thank you, she said. As for me, I didn’t care how her voice suddenly seemed low and kind, or what failures and triumphs of the body and spirit brought her to that point— just that it sounded like hope, stupid hope. ↗

— Jason Shinder

#hope #life #love #change

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#marriage #change

When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people. ↗

— Solange nicole

#life-and-living #memories #change

Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#death #maturity #wisdom #death

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be. ↗

— David Eagleman

#life #memory #representation #death

Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life adn there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn't adopt chemistry as a religion. ↗

— Betty Smith

#life #religion #death

Hermione turned and beamed at Harry; her eyes, too, were full of tears. ‘…then I declare you bonded for life. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hermione-granger #love #romance #death

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#death

My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I exploded: “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#genocide #germany #history #hitler #holocaust