#death

Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#life #loneliness #death

Via the conduit of a wild dog pack, she has now made the ultimate Gift to her fellow Creatures, and has become part of God's great dance of proteins. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#death

As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops. ↗

— Robin Hobb

#death

But death's acquisitive instincts will win. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#instincts #will #win

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#center #church #curved #death #down

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out. ↗

— Harry Browne

#coming #country #death #fear #free

Death is the most blessed dream. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#death #dream #most

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#completely #correct #death #honestly #inappropriate

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#dead #die #everyone #going #himself

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. ↗

— David Byrne

#disease #face #glamour #horror #industry