#death

If you don't leave room for the unexpected to express itself in your life, you close yourself off from the possibility of miracles. ↗

— Robert Stikmanz

#humor #science-fiction #death

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out. ↗

— Harry Browne

#coming #country #death #fear #free

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely. ↗

— Buddha

#even #feared #lived #who #wisely

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. ↗

— Buddha

#health #image #life #only #state

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#completely #correct #death #honestly #inappropriate

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bored #death #die #i #my own

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#life #must #neither #seriously #taken

... we absolutely mustn't forget it. We mustn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about (so it is to retirement homes that they entrust the care of accompanying their parents to the threshold, with no fuss or bother). And where's the joy in these final hours they ought to be making the most of? They're spent in boredom and bitterness, endlessly revisiting memories. We mustn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#death #life #age

Ritual he liked, but compulsory routine he hated. Thus, he resented every minute that he now had to surrender to showering, shampooing, shaving, and flossing and brushing his teeth. If mere men could devise self-defrosting refrigerators and self-cleaning ovens, why couldn't nature, in all its complex, inventive magnificence, have managed to come up with self-cleaning teeth? "There's birth," he grumbled, "there's death, and in between there's maintenance. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life #tom-robbins #death

When you start fooling around with drugs, you're hurting your creativity, you're hurting your health. Drugs are death, in one form or another. If they don't kill you, they kill your soul. And if your soul's dead, you've got nothing to offer, anyway. ↗

— Paul Stanley

#anyway #around #creativity #dead #death