#death

dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life. ↗

— Natalie Babbitt

#death

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#life #death

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#existence #life #reason #thinking #death

Stronger than iron crueler than death sweeter than springtime it lives beyond breath ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#love #riddle #death

Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim. ↗

— Vicki Harrison

#grief #loss #love #strength #survival

He is sorry- For everything- For Prentisstown- For Viola- For Ben- For every failure and every wrong- For letting his pa down- And he's looking up at me- And he's begging me- He's begging me- Like I'm the only one who can forgive him- Like it's only me who's got the power- Todd?- Please- And all I can say is "Davy-" And the fright and the terror in his Noise is too much- It's too much- And then it stops. Davy slumps, eyes still open, eyes still staring back at me, eyes still asking (I swear) for me to forgive him. And he lies there, still. Davy Prentiss is dead. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#davy #dead #death #forgive #todd

I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#death-and-dying #love #poetry #death

This world is rotten. The rotten should die. ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#death

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#jk-rowling #death

PIPPIN: I didn't think it would end this way. GANDALF: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. PIPPIN: What? Gandalf? See what? GANDALF: White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise. PIPPIN: Well, that isn't so bad. GANDALF: No. No, it isn't. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#death