#death

Death does determine life. ↗

We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A chill, say, or a little slip on the cliff side. I feel as fragile as a dried flower. I rattle a little in the moving air, but I'm only coherent dust-a shape of what once was. My essence is going. ↗

— Sheri S. Tepper

#death #age

Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda. ↗

— John Yoo

#attacks #death #deprive #detect #fight

I felt peace, even though I was still scared to death. I thought that, whatever would happen to me - I could still be killed. I didn't know - and in what I'd already been through, God was in control. ↗

— Diet Eman

#dutch #holocaust #jesus-christ #righteous-gentile #wwii

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#judgement #life #old-age #age

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#affront #anything #cannot #consolations #controlled

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#considered #deaths #demeaning #diseases #easy

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that. ↗

— Sophocles

#death #die #even #wants #worst

Not even old age knows how to love death. ↗

— Sophocles

#death #even #how #knows #love

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death. ↗