#death

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#children #dark #fear #go #increased

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky. ↗

— Rick Baker

#clear #death #died #end #happened

We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation. ↗

— Michael Baden

#death #each #investigation #new #new york

Brendan stopped reading. The words had melted into a liquid blur...In his possession was a box full of information that would likely fill in the gaps and help him to wrap his brain around the whys of her death. And yet, there was really only one question that mattered, and Tommy had already answered it. ↗

— Lynda Meyers

#books #brendan #letters-from-the-ledge #lftl #lynda-meyers

It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue. ↗

— Brian Baird

#benefit #death #defend #democrat #died

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#earnestness #life #will #you

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#cursed #dies #done #evil #him

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it. ↗

— Abu Bakr

#all things #before #death #easiest #hardest

Normality is death. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#normality

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#cars #children #deaths #elegant #fear