#death

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#life-after-death #living-life #salvation #ticket #death

Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. ↗

— Gyles Brandreth

#oscar-wilde #death

...because he knew that for other people their own social obligations took precedence of the death of a friend, and could put himself in her place by dint of his instinctive politeness. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#proust #death

It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's death;but, as common subjects have that virtue too, sometimes, we will say no more about it. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#humor #death

What’s the point of playing if winning isn’t the goal? ↗

— J.D. Robb

#death

One went on and on, never dreaming of the sudden dreadful day when the coverings were going to be dropped and one would see it was death after all, that it had been death all the time, death pretending, death waiting ↗

— Elizabeth von Arnim

#death

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down. ↗

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

#ego #psychology #tibet #wisdom #death

Everything but a life can be replaced. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#importance-of-existence #life #death

Sexton: I think the whole world's gone mad. Death: Uh-uh. It's always like this. You probably just don't get out enough. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death

Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides. ↗