#death

Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today. ↗

— Hal Stratton

#deaths #each #greater #number #poisoning

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old. ↗

— Peter Straub

#bit #death #encountered #i #i believe

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#come #dawn #death #lamp #light

Always ↗

— Severus Snape

#j-k-rowling #the-deathly-hallows #death

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats. ↗

— Henry Thomas

#family #mail #photograph #threats #tourists

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agony #amazing #anyone #anything #apart

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of death. You see, something happens when the body knows it's about to go. Peptide hormones are released by cells in the hypothalamus and pituitary gland. Endorphins. They attach themselves to the cells responsible for feeling pain. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agony #attach #body #cells #death

We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#catch #death #energy #energy level #felt

Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#departed #itself #life #living #shadow

For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#life #life-application #meaning #natural-world #purpose