#death

Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage; you're just playin' yourself. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#egotism #quotes-to-live-by #selfish #death

Death was silence, loss, guilt. And anger. But life led that way, anyway. From birth, it was a slow, long march to the grave. Who said that? She couldn’t remember now. But it was true. They were born dying. If they were very lucky, the dying was called aging. They reached toward if as if they were satellites in unstable orbits. And then when they got there, they were just dead. One moment in time separated the living from the ghosts. ↗

— Michelle Sagara West

#death #guilt #loss #silence #age

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing. ↗

— John Cheever

#art

Competition is the death of art. ↗

— Dana Gould

#competition #death #keep-it-crispy #pete-holmes #weird

TO BE is life's dilemma while facing the eternity of death. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#death

Hard work is a sure death but a slower one than starvation. ↗

— Jim Hinckley

#inspirational #death

I'd much rather be hold up with a ball of yarn, tucked inside the safety of the house with my mother. Out there, you must come to grips with the rot and bone, bloom and disintegration. It's part of the world, this ruthlessness, this severed leg, this sun-bleached skull. I can't really stand it. All the signs point toward change, and all that means is death. - 140-141 ↗

— Robin Romm

#death-of-a-loved-one #grief #change

Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish. ↗

— Sophocles

#death

All good things pass away. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#demise #death

There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#death #light #death