#death

We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents...Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#life #beauty

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#absolutely #anyone #book #certainly #contained

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#eternal #eternal life #frightening #life

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#defined #disease #event #god #immensity

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#cure #death #diseases #labor #our

Death is the cure for all diseases. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#death #diseases

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.' ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#called #death #grandly #greeks #happy

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#always #around #corner #gives #help

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#darker #death #film #humor #life

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#guilty #made #obsessed #who