#death

When I met Millie, she was a hugger. She hugged over everything. I didn’t. We came to an agreement that hugs are reserved for prolonged partings and death. That’s it. At least, I thought that was our agreement. It seems like she’s figured out how to steal hugs more frequently. Millie’s turned into a hit and run hugger. ↗

— H.M. Ward

#friendship #hug #hugger #hugs #sneaky

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived. ↗

— Sage Steadman

#family #life #love #motivation #strength-through-adversity

Chip, she’s gone,” and he said, “I thought I’d feel her looking down on us, but you’re right. She’s just gone ↗

— John Green

#death

Death stalked toward us on padded feet.        And it was not alone. ↗

— Melika Dannese Lux

#death #hybrid-vampires #leonora-bianchetti #showdown #vladec-salei

There's no scientific basis for zombieism -- except for some experiments in the Caribbean with blowfish toxins that put people in a state of near death with almost imperceptible respiration and pulse, but there was no actual, you know, raising of the dead. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#death

I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous -- constantly attacking people with his fists in public places -- so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#broken-heart #consumption #poets #young-men #death

The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. ↗

— Walter Scott

#death-and-dying #pride #walter-scott #wretch #death

لو كان الموت يصنع شيئا لوقف مد الحياة!.. ولكنه قوة ضئيلة حسيرة، بجانب قوى الحياة الزاخرة الطافرة الغامرة...!. ↗

— سيد قطب

#inspirational #life #death

Life and Death is all about Swansong ↗

— Michael Ikechukwu john

#death

... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks. ↗

— Diane Setterfield

#grief #quotes #death