#death

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. ↗

— Angela Carter

#except #life #life and death #matter #nothing

The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, ‘Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your twinkling stars and infinite wonders and darkness. There’s already enough beauty where you are. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#closure #death #denial #grief #loss

After Elsa’s death, Einstein established a routine that as the years passed varied less and less. Breakfast between 9 and 10 was followed by a walk to the institute. After working until 1pm he would return home for lunch and a nap. Afterwards he would work in his study until dinner between 6.30 and 7pm. If not entertaining guests, he would return to work until he went to bed between 11 and 12. He rarely went to the theatre or to a concert, and unlike Bohr, hardly ever watched a movie. He was, Einstein said in 1936, ‘living in the kind of solitude that is painful in one’s youth but in one’s more mature years is delicious’. ↗

— Manjit Kumar

#einstein #quantum #death

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#every #hours #living #provides #relief

People become very upset,' Gavo tells me, 'when they find out they are going to die' . . . 'They behave very strangely,' he says. 'They are suddenly filled with life. Suddenly they want to fight for things, ask questions. They want to throw hot water in your face, or beat you senseless with an umbrella, or hit you in the head with a rock. Suddenly they remember the things they have to do, people they have forgotten. ↗

— Téa Obreht

#death

It had a very long pendulum,and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge,because it was the kind of deliberate annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life. It was the kind of sound that suggested very pointedly that in some hypothetical hourglass somewhere,another few grains of sand had dropped out form under you. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#death #death

I see you look at me when you think I'm not aware You're searching for clues of just how deep my feelings are How do you prove the sky is blue, the oceans wide? All I know is what I feel when I look into your eyes I promise you from the bottom of my heart I will love you till death do us part I promise you as a lover and a friend I will love you like I never love again With everything that I am ↗

— Backstreet Boys

#love #death

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero. ↗

— Paddy Chayefsky

#death #hero #his #man #send

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now. ↗

— Angelina Jolie

#appreciate #comforting #could #death #die

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#death #feared #followed #goddess #life