#death

In a middle of a war a single doubt about what you are fighting for could mean death. ↗

— Kenneth de Guzman

#doubt #fighting-for #war #death

Life is happiness, life is death; we are born, we grow old, and we die. There is nothing is wrong with the cycle of life, our time on earth had a limit set at the very moment we were born. ↗

— Martin Suarez

#birth #clinging #dying #life #life-and-death

Rise up to wise up. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#quotes-to-live-by #rise #wisdom-quotes #death

Just as we take a train to get to Beijing or Manhattan, we take death to reach a star. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#star #train #death

It is astonishing how much worse one mosquito can be than a swarm. A swarm can be prepared against, but one mosquito takes on a personality—a hatefulness, a sinister quality of the struggle to the death. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#death

She knew well the history of which they spoke because her father had been a part of it. When the military overseers of Pakistan had refused to allow the winning party in Bangladesh—then East Pakistan—to form a government, her father had put down his textbooks, left the university, and joined the fight. Hundreds of thousands, millions of deaths later, Bangladesh had its independence. His stories had made a deep impact on on Asma as a child. She had resolved to be as brave, only to learn that as a woman she wasn't expected to be. ↗

— Amy Waldman

#women #death

Decay is as inevitable as death, as nothing lives in this temporary world for eternity ↗

— Usama Hussain

#death

Your kidding" i said. "we've escaped from top- security prisons, lived on our own for years, made tons of smarty-pants grown-ups look like fools without even trying,eaten desert rats with no A1 steak sauce, and your telling me we're minors and have to have guardians?" I shook my head, staring at him. "Listen pal, i grew up in a freaking dog crate. I've seen horrible, part-human mutations die gut-wrenching deaths. I've had people, mutants, and robots trying to kill me twenty-four/seven for as long as i can remember, and you think i'm gonna cave to state law? are you bonkers? ↗

— James Patterson

#death

Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#dying #life #living #death

Death was an inverse Big Bang; an impossible magic trick where everything had become nothing in the very same instant, where one state had been replaced so completely by another that no evidence of the first could be detected, and where the catalyst had been vaporized by the sheer shock of the new. ↗

— Belinda Bauer

#death #shock #death