#death

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#fame #names #time #death

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#death #doing #once #only #proven

Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living. ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#suicide #death

...or because he got eighteen years when he should have gotten more.' 'Seventeen,' Gus corrected. 'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interrupting bastard. ↗

— John Green

#friendship #humor #death

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#gratitude #death

We could endlessly reminisce, live in the past to an unhealthy degree, then politely kill each other some winter night before bedtime, stirring poison into our cups of whiskey-spiked chamomile tea, wearing party hats. Then, nervous about our double homicide, we could lie in bed together, holding hands again, frightened and waiting, still wondering, after all these years, if we even believed in our own souls. ↗

— Timothy Schaffert

#old-age #sisters #age

Does somebody know why the consciousness of death has to die? ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#death

I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him there to be close to his death, I understood this also at the same moment. For who would wish to see a companion gasp his last on a jolting cart? We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full meed of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#dying #pity #death

Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything...away. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#life #love #rebirth #sacrifice #wisdom

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#nausea #death