#death

Grief is love turned into an eternal missing ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#grief #love #death

Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what came to us in life but how we lived with it. It will not be simply illness or health, riches or poverty, good luck or bad, which ultimately define whether we believe we have had a good life or not, but the quality of our relationship to these situations: the attitudes of our states of mind. (34) ↗

— Stephen Levine

#death #dying #life #relationship #state-of-mind

Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts-- he's here, but only because we are here. When we go, he goes with us to be your hands that never do violence, your eyes that wonder, your lives that daily praise life by living it, by laughter. He is never alone here, never cold in the field of graves. ↗

— Denise Levertov

#poetry #death

Life will undertake to separate us, and we must each set off in search of our own path, our own destiny or our own way of facing death. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#death

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young. ↗

— A.E. Housman

#life #youth #death

Was it possible to love a man who made you feel ridiculous? Of course [.....], love was complicated, that was all. Or was love simple, and marriage was complicated? In seventeen years of marriage David had often left her feeling frustrated, and furious, and disgusted, yes - but he had also made her feel beautiful, and protected, and loved. And oh, what she would give to feel loved right now. ↗

— Laura Brodie

#love #marriage #widows #beauty

...wszystko jest stratą czasu, chyba że człowiek pieprzy się w najlepsze, tworzy w najlepsze, ma się jak najlepiej albo zmierza w kierunku ułudy pod tytułem miłość i szczęście. Wszyscy kończymy w gnojówce porażki - czy nazwiemy to śmiercią czy błędem. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#beauty

Gloria laughed at them and said that she’d overtaken grief a long time ago, that she was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear. ↗

— Colum McCann

#life #beauty

This is not a white and black business we are in. There are messy shades of crimson haunting us in everything we do. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#life #vampire #business

People who change their religion should face the death penalty. ↗

— Zakir Naik

#bigotry #death-penalty #fanaticism #islam #religion