#death

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil. ↗

— Citium Zeno

#evil #honorable #therefore

Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too hot a flame. Yes, sometimes it was hot in this world, too. Hot and cold, light and dark, terrible and beautiful, it was everything all at once. It wasn't true that you felt nothing in the land of Death. You felt and heard and smelled and saw, but your heart remained strangely calm, as if it were resting before the dance began again. Peace. Was that the word? ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#beauty

It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide. ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#suicide #death

Words taken literally or held as ultimate truth can keep us stagnant and stuck, holding on to old ideologies. I now know that everything I need is already contained within me and is completely aceessible if I allow myself to open up to what I sense is true for me...and the same is true for you. ↗

— Anita Moorjani

#death

I detested you, at the moment of my death... My soul cannot move beyond that... As long as you live, I cannot rest! -Kikyo to Kagome ↗

— Rumiko Takahashi

#inuyasha #kagome #kikyo #manga #rumiko

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them? ↗

— Willie Aames

#death #found #get #i #i see

I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die. ↗

— Nawal El Saadawi

#life #death

It's normal to shy away from illness and death. It's natural to gravitate toward laughter and life. ↗

— Ellyn Bache

#illness #laughter #life #art

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear. ↗

— Meghna Pant

#despair #inspirational #loneliness #old-age #age

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#age #away #contrasted #death #destiny