#death

Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases. ↗

— Jared Diamond

#disease #history #death

I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [...] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death. ↗

— Danilo Kiš

#sleep #death

I closed my eyes. I used to think I was protecting the world, too. But it wasn't that simple. Nothing was. Who were we to decide that anyone or anything didn't deserve the spark of life they had been given? ↗

— Kiersten White

#life-and-death #death

The most terrifying specter that haunts the modern psyche is not death or disease or nuclear annihilation. It is loneliness. ↗

— Terryl L. Givens

#death

Mediocrity is Death. ↗

— Suleman Abdullah

#brands #creative-profession #ideas #inspirational #life-lessons

...don't be afraid of going by a way you've never gone - that's the way we're all going... ↗

— John Geddes

#life #purpose #unknown #way #death

Le suicide est une solution à l'absurde. ↗

— Albert Camus

#death #suicide #death

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#reality #death

One misspoken word and the world will no longer know you. Mark Andrew Ramsay ↗

— Brendan Carroll

#fairies #fantasy #magic #swords #templars

But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind. ↗

— Henry Miller

#fight #soldier #death