#death

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#birth #death #enlightenment #long #never

Death was his little sister one morning when he awoke at the age of seven, looked into her crib, and saw her staring up at him with a blind, blue, fixed and frozen stare until the men came with a small wicker basket to take her away. Death was when he stood by her high chair four weeks later and suddenly realized she'd never be in it again, laughing and crying and making him jealous of her because she was born. That was death. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#age

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. ↗

— John Green

#labyrinth #life #suffering #wrong #death

I am sorry for being so weak. I will always love you…” Arin whispers back to his family without facing them again, “But this Detrelli, this devil… it will never touch another person … never again… Not a single death will go unaccounted for, I promise you both… I promise…”    ↗

— Jason J. Berg

#death

Et in Arcadia Ego ↗

— Numerous Evelyn Waugh

#brevity-of-life #death #beauty

I must write. If I stop writing my life will have been an abject failure. It is that already to other people. But it could be an abject failure to myself. I will not have earned death. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#death

We love ourselves notwithstanding our faults, and we ought to love our friends in like manner. ↗

— Cyrus the Great

#frienship #humor #life #love #philosophy

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world. ↗

— Justin Cronin

#death

Oh Julie, wouldn’t I know if you were dead? Wouldn’t I feel it happening, like a jolt of electricity to my heart? ↗

— Elizabeth Wein

#friendship #grief #heart #worry #death

The Only Way Out Is To DIE!!!! ↗

— Bullet for My Valentine

#gothic #music #death