#death

Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here though death doth end their misery, I'll there begin their endless tragedy. ↗

— Thomas Kyd

#tragedy #death

Do we fear death or that of arriving at its door before we are ready? ↗

— James R. Paddock

#death

He shook his head, staring at her like a condemned man who beheld the face of his executioner. "Aline," he whispered, "Do you know what hell is?" "Yes." Her eyes overflowed. "Trying to exist with your heart living somewhere outside your body." "No. It's knowing that you have so little faith in my love, you would have condemned me to a lifetime of agony." His face contorted suddenly. "To something worse than death. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#lisa-kleypas #mckenna #romance #death

إن الناس إذا أعتقدوا أن تحتضر ، يعطونك كامل اهتمامهم .. إذا كانت هذه هي آخر مرة يرونك فيها يرونك حقًا .. وينسون كل شيء آخر عن دفاتر شيكاتهم وأغاني الراديو و العناية بشعرهم . إنك تظهر باهتمامهم الكامل .. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#death #novel #death

To the wizard death is merely a belief. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #death

There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#death

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear. ↗

— Lady Nancy Astor

#fear #death

One is seldom unchanged by the death of those one loves. It gives me a deeper knowledge of them, and so of oneself in regard to them. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#knowledge #loved-ones #death

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

#death

That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors. ↗

— Vincent H. O'Neil

#directing #mystery #playwriting #theater #writing