#death

The story of a life can be as long or as short as the teller wishes. Whether the life is tragic or enlightened, the classic gravestone inscription marking simply the dates of birth and death has, in its brevity, much to recommend it. ↗

— Michel Houellebecq

#death #story #dating

What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was? ↗

— Elin Hilderbrand

#death #death

Fidelity is a living, breathing entity. On wobbly footing, it can wander, becoming something different entirely. ↗

— Kay Goodstadt

#brain-tumor #death #faith #food #gay

Jihadist: A man born into wanderlust who tries to grow roots by planting weeds; Death's freedom fighter. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #jihad #terrorism #death

The sun was now in its death throes, bruising the sky a coiling purple and orange. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#death

However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels... ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#family-relationships #love #loved-ones #rosamund-lupton #sister

We’re beings towards death, we’re featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose bodies will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That’s us. ↗

— Cornel West

#philosophy-of-life #death

I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#worship #death

it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger ↗

— Kate Grenville

#perception #death

It came to that" the first time you sentenced a man to death that you knew to be innocent. ↗

— Abby Mann

#death