#death

I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#death #life #little-women #louisa-may-alcott #love

I love you.' 'Yeah, well...' 'You make my heart want to beat.' 'That's nice and creepy. But I'm with Fletcher.(...) Also, these proclamations of your undying love for me are getting kind of... it's a bit much to be honest. Just hold back a little.' 'But my love for you is eternal.' 'That's exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. ↗

— Derek Landy

#death

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #death

أعرف جيدًا أنّه ليس مؤلمًا على الإطلاق أن تقف خلف النافذة كما يفعل مَن ينتظر شيئًا ، أحدًا ما ، أو مَن يدفعه الفضولُ إلى الإطمئنان مرةً ثم أُخرى إلى أنَّ الأشياءَ في الخارج مازالتْ هناك وأنَّه لم يَمُت بعدُ لكي يفقدها ↗

— بسام حجار

#death

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#despair #letting-go #life #moving-on #sadness

People of Panem, we fight, we dare, we end our hunger for justice!” There‘s dead silence on the set. It goes on. And on. Finally, the intercom crackles and Haymitch‘s acerbic laugh fills the studio. He contains himself just long enough to say, “And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#haymitch #katniss-everdeen #revolution #death

Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?" "I don't know. I don't think so." "Then how do people recognize each other?" "I don't know, sweetie. They just feel it. You don't need your eyes to love, right? ↗

— R.J. Palacio

#heaven #love #wonder #death

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#life #death

Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham) ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#epitaph #hope #joy-gresham #loss #love

Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#life #death