#death

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #life

...and I know I'm about to die. I know it's over and it doesn't feel real, somehow, it feels like this is a story someone else is telling, like death is a strange, distant thing you've only ever seen happen to people you've never known and surely it doesn't happen to me, to you, to any of the rest of us. But here it is. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#death

Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness. ↗

— R.K. Narayan

#death

Mere words cannot defeat a true hero. Unless they happen to be the words to some sort of Instant Death Spell. Magic is scary. ↗

— Christopher Healy

#heroes #magic #death

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#hemingway #humor #poets #terza-rima #death

Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between--Is my journey’s end coming? ↗

— Herman Melville

#human-condition #humanity #life #mortality #death

Birth pushes, death pulls; only you can slow the time between. ↗

— Jack Sanger

#death

Wilson had been killed by everybody. It was this that made his death special, the children had been told. It was justice, it was all the people showing how much they hated this crime. Killing was justice when everybody joined in. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#community #justice #punishment #death

He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#description #wine #wine-bottle #death

Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather. ↗

— Bill Hicks

#philosophy #death