#death

Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. “Someone is dying,” thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#death #hans-christian-andersen #match-girl #death

You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#inspirational #life-lessons #death

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions. ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#death

Honor from death,” I snap, “is a myth. Invented by the war torn to make sense of the horrific. If we die, it will be so that others may live. Truly honorable death, the only honorable death, is one that enables life. ↗

— Rae Carson

#honor #quotes-to-live-by #death

I don’t need a steak knife to cut my meat. That’s why karate chops were created. I’m like a butter knife, only slightly less deadly. But I’m great with bagels—and disobedient old people.
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— Jarod Kintz

#bagels #butter #butter-knife #creation #deadly

Sullen monosyllabism, a sure sign of sleep deprivation. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#humor #waldo-butters #death

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#news #poetry #death

We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and “success”, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers. A culture that does not grasp the vital interplay between morality and power, which mistakes management techniques for wisdom, which fails to understand that the measure of a civilization is its compassion, not its speed or ability to consume, condemns itself to death. ↗

— Chris Hedges

#death

And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#fairy-tales #humor #prince-charming #terror #death

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief; ↗

— William Cullen Bryant

#death #mourning #death