#death

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song. ↗

— Martin Gore

#big #big break #break #death #exactly

There are all sorts of losses people suffer - from the small to the large. You can lose your keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion. ↗

— Jodi Picoult The Storyteller

#grief #loss #death

Okay," I said, "what's your biggest fear?" As always, he took a second to think about the answer. "Clowns," he said. "Clowns." "Yup." I just looked at him. "What?" he said, glancing over at me. "That is not a real answer," I told him. "Says who?" "Says me. I meant a real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence." He thought for a second. "Clowns. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#macy #wes #death

It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed, and every single one of his friends, still, after all these years... it's unbelievable. ↗

— Eydie Gorme

#anniversary #death #every #friends #hard

Every single day I have missed you. I grieve for the moments we have had together and I long for the moments we will never have. ↗

— Kristin Maddock

#literary #death

I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#control #death #fun #go #how

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#death #ever #her #jesus #lady

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people. ↗

— William Greider

#arsenal #awesome #death #founded #killing

Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whom my life should rather have been lengthened, yet can I patiently take it, that I yield God more hearty thanks for shortening my woeful days. ↗

— Jane Grey

#been #days #death #god #hasten

Sir Thomas More was a victim of injustice and irony. Generously and meekly, just as he was about to be martyred, he said: Paul . . . was present, and consented to the death of St. Stephen, and kept their clothes that stoned him to death, and yet be they [Stephen and Paul] now both twain Holy Saints in heaven, and shall continue there friends for ever, so I verily trust and . . . pray, that though your lordships have now here in earth been judges to my condemnation, we may yet hereafter in heaven merrily all meet together, to our everlasting salvation. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#meekness #death