#death

If one does die taking these drugs, the death is likely to be very peaceful. Morphia is, after all, the goddess of dreams. ↗

— Philip Nitschke

#dreams #death

Let everything that's been planned come true. Let them believe. And let them have a laugh at their passions. Because what they call passion actually is not some emotional energy, but just the friction between their souls and the outside world. And most important, let them believe in themselves. Let them be helpless like children, because weakness is a great thing, and strength is nothing. When a man is just born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is hard and insensitive. When a tree is growing, it's tender and pliant. But when it's dry and hard, it dies. Hardness and strength are death's companions. Pliancy and weakness are expressions of the freshness of being. Because what has hardened will never win. ↗

— Andrei Tarkovsky

#death

It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll never go to college or have a job. I won't see my brother grow up. I won't travel, never earn money, never drive, never fall in love or leave home or get my own house. It's really, really true. A thought stabs up, growing from my toes and ripping through me, until it stifles everything else and becomes the only thing I'm thinking. It fills me up like a silent scream. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#death #death

They say that war is death's best friend, but I must offer you a different point of view on that one. To me, war is like the new boss who expects the impossible. He stands over your shoulder repeating one thin, incessantly: 'Get it done, get it done.' So you work harder. You get the job done. The boss, however, does not thank you. He asks for more. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#death #war #death

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals! ↗

— Albert Camus

#complication #death #slavery #war #death

Things that Shane doesn't want on his grave: (1.) I thought it wasn't loaded. (2.) Hand me a match so I can check the gas tank. (3.) Killed over Ice Cream ↗

— Rachel Caine

#rachel-caine #shane-collins #death

I remember being stunned at the New York skyline as I drove over this big freeway, coming across the flats in Seacaucus. All of a sudden it was looming up in front of me and I almost lost control of the car. I thought it was a vision. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#new-york #death

She came and she went, in sorrow for the death of dreams, and she came no more. ↗

— Glen Cook

#death

Lie you easy, dream you light, And sleep you fast for aye; And luckier may you find the night Than ever you found the day. ↗

— A.E. Housman

#life-and-death #luck #night #sleep #the-isle-of-portland

الحياة بعد الموت ليست سوى إيمان تخيّله الإنسان كي يتحمل خوفه من العدم. ↗

— Atiq Rahimi

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