#death

Science asymptotically approaches reality ↗

— Philip C. Plait

#death

I was finally beginning to perceive that no matter how many dead people I might see, or people at the instant of their death, I would never manage to grasp death, that very moment, precisely in itself. It was one thing or the other: either you are dead, and then in any case there's nothing else to understand, or else you are not yet dead, and in that case, even with the rifle at the back of your head or the rope around your neck, death remains incomprehensible, a pure abstraction, this absurd idea that I, the only living person in the world, could disappear. Dying, we may already be dead, but we never die, that moment never comes, or rather it never stops coming, there it is, it's coming, and then it's still coming, and then it's already over, without ever having come. ↗

— Jonathan Littell

#death

Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead. ↗

— Megan Boyle

#life #death

Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect... God has written the letters of death upon your hands. In the inside of your hands you will see the letters M.M. It means "Memento Mori" - remember you must die. ↗

— J. Furniss

#death

Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny. ↗

— James Jones

#existence #fear #scrutiny #death

If we were born to live life, then why not live it to the fullest because if we don't then what is the point of being born at all? ↗

— Jeanine Lombard

#death

He used you, yeah. But what if you hadn't come? My family would have run again, but we would never have been free. We would never stop hunting us." "I know." I thought of my frustration in Paris and I couldn't even imagine how sick of running Seth must be. "That's why I had to come." His eyebrow cocked upward. "And here I thought you came to see me. ↗

— Linda Gerber

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I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#death

Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#eomer #fear #hope #life #sudden

Listen: being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#life #death