#death

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#destruction #failure #beauty

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#death #poetry #women #beauty

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep. ↗

— Joanna Russ

#earth #home #love #death

His death didn't concern him. It was Sunshine he couldn't allow to die. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#love #death

You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I love him and I want it to stay. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#forever #love #death

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#sadness #death

Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood. ↗

— Mary Renault

#the-persian-boy #death

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life #beauty

What a more beautiful world this would be if we didn't wait til people were dead before we honored their spirit. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#inspiration #life #life-and-living #philosophy #philosophy-of-life

Immortality doesn't fit with death, as mortal doesn't fit with eternity. ↗

— Toba Beta

#immortal #death