#death

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#desires #flesh #hard #impressions #make

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#despise #else #like #nature #welcome

It was a romantic tale saying we were more than our bodies our soul lives on after death. We shed the outer body but the important bits the soul and heart lives on for eternity ↗

— Annette J. Dunlea

#annette-j-dunlea #irish-writer #death

Death is many things, including the beginning of something new. ↗

— Dawn Akemi

#inspiration #rebirth #death

I now have some intimacy with death, and like the hops in a beer, it has both embittered and fortified me. ↗

— Eli Brown

#death

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#believe #dead #death #fears #i

This is the last time I would ever visit the cemetery or my wife's grave, but I didn't want to expend too much effort in trying to remember it. As I said, this is the place where she's never been anything but dead. There's not much value in remembering that. ↗

— John Scalzi

#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

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

#acted #approach #build #creative #death