#death

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment. ↗

— Sting

#death #gives #happily #life #lived

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#constantly #culmination #death #out #record

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. ↗

— Charles Frohman

#beautiful #death #fear #life #most

I've always got my eye on my deathbed. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#deathbed #eye #got #i

Since I've started living out my dreams, since I've become the contemporary of the centuries to come, I no longer know death under the annihilating guise it has maintained in today's society. Only in my moments of deepest depression do I realise that in that world of swine into which I was born I shall be forced to die, just as out in the street I'm obliged to rub shoulders with priests and cops. ↗

— Ghérasim Luca

#death

I once met a traveler who told me he would live to see the end of time. He laid out all his vitamins before me and told me he slept seven hours every night, no more or less. All the life you want, he said. It's all within the palm of your hand now. He said he would outlast all the wars and all the diseases, long enough to remember everything, and long enough to forget everything. He'd be the last man still standing when the sun decides to collapse upon itself and history ends. He said he had found the safest place on earth, where he could stay until the gateway to the beyond opened before him. A thousand generations from today. I pictured him there, atop a remote and snowy mountain. The heavens opening and God congratulating him for his perseverance. Asking him to join Him and watch as the sun burns down to a dull orange cinder and everything around it breaks is orbit and goes tumbling tumbling away, everything that once seemed permanent pulled apart so effortlessly, like a ball of yarn. A life into divinity. But I knew it was a lie. I've always known it was a lie. You can not hide from the world. It will find you. It always does. And now it has found me. My split second of immortality is over. All that's left now is the end, which is all any of us ever has. ↗

— Drew Magary

#immortality #death

On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger. ↗

— Hu Shih

#basis #better #biological #death #decay

Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#death #emmys #grown #how #i

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears. ↗

— Martin Short

#death #i #imagined #my own #myself

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies? ↗

— Andrew Shue

#cope #deal #death #had #how