#death

My chest tightens to the point I fear my heart will suffocate from the pressure of it. Society's standards are the total opposite from how I was raised. The boy who I thought to be so strikingly handsome has less than a year of his life to live, my new friend only a few more months beyond that. Yet they are living these uneventful lives in which they don't think there is a reason for anything. Will I ever see my mother again, or is this how I will be forced to live the rest of my life, as well? ↗

— Jen Naumann

#dystopian #dystopian-fiction #life-and-death #death

Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life. ↗

— Mahmoud Darwish

#poetry #death

You had a certain way of saying my name. It was the inflection maybe, something you put into those three syllables. And now you are gone and my name is just my name again, not the story of my life. ↗

— Abigail Thomas

#memoir #death

I finally accept that not only do I not understand the death of my relationship, but I do not need to. These men were good and kind to me, they loved me and I loved them back and the shock at the finish holds no wisdom. The revelation is not that I lost them, but that I had them. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#love #death

In defence, I have cultivated a death wish. ↗

— Billy Fury

#death #defence #i #wish

Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done or have fantasized about. love, deception, romance, fear, death, life, pain, & yes even happiness. writing is of a specific purpose & states a meaning within what is written. ↗

— Michael Stuckey

#poetry #recipes #writer #writing #death

Death whispers your name to me. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#death #death-and-dying #psychic #psychic-powers #sci-fi

Mientras cubría la distancia entre Sant Berger y mi casa, sentí que la negrura de la noche iba tiñendo mi alma. Sin que pudiera explicármelo, un malestar había empezado a roerme desde dentro como una fiera oculta. Me sentía huérfano de la vida. ↗

— Francesc Miralles

#belleza #death #love #muerte #spanish

É preferível morrer por amor que viver sem ele. ↗

— Alvarez de Azevedo

#death #love #morte #death

And what cats have to tell on each return from hell is this: that dying is what the living do, that dying is what the loving do, and that dead dogs are those who do not know that dying is what, to live, each has to do. ↗

— Alastair Reid

#curiosity #death #dogs #dying #life