#death

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived. ↗

— John Fowles

#death

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs. ↗

— Thomas Kyd

#eyes #form #fountains #fraught #life

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#gratitude #death

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#nausea #death

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#away #before #death #decay #dies

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states. ↗

— Burke Marshall

#american #concept #death #death penalty #different

I wrapped my hands around the familiar cup and tried to draw strength from it. It was from Thea's old Moss Rose set, remnant of careful scrimping and saving in her first year of marriage. Yet the mellow old cup now brought me no comfort, only a feeling of helplessness, of time slipping away. Sunday-best dishes gone to everyday and now to mismatched pieces. Like Thea and me ↗

— Lorena McCourtney

#friendship #old-age #age

Those who are afraid of what comes after death because it is unknown may tend to be those who cannot face the unknown in life. ↗

— Robert E. Neale

#art

It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humour #life #death

Hermione launched herself forwards and started punching every inch of him that she could reach. 'Ouch — ow — gerroff! What the — ? Hermione — OW!' “You — complete — arse — Ronald — Weasley!” She punctuated every word with a blow: Ron backed away, shielding his head as Hermione advanced. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humor #ron-weasley #death