#death

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after and judged by these standards, which I do not defend, the bullfight is very normal to me because I feel very fine while it is going on and have a feeling of life and death and mortality and immortality, and after it is over I feel very sad but also very fine. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#death

Nothing significant in the kingdom of God happens unless death occurs. ↗

— Mary DeMuth

#god #inspirational #death

I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way, since if you do not put them out again carefully they will stay where they are, never moving, until the last bath is out of their bodies, and indeed they will remain in the place where they came to grief even after death, held fast by the tiny claws that stiffened in their last agony,until a draft of air detaches them and blows them into a dusty corner. ↗

— W.G. Sebald

#grief #naturalism #death

Independence isn't all it's cracked up to be, you know. What country could be more independent than Russia? And in Russia now there isn't a squeak or a pinpoint of light. I have nowhere to publish. The Contemporary has stuck its head up out of harm's way. So I've stopped quarrelling with the world. I sat in this chair the first morning I woke up in this house ... and for the first time ... for a long time, there was silence. I didn't have to talk or think or move, nothing was expected of me, I knew nobody and nobody knew where i was, everything was behind me, all the moving from place to place, the quarrels and celebrations, the desperate concerns of health and happiness, love, death, printer's errors, picnics ruined by rain, the endless tumult of life ... and I just sat quiet and alone all day, looking at the tops of trees on Primrose Hill through the mist. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#death

Death is life's way of telling you, you've been recalled ↗

— Josh Stern

#death #life #recalled #telling #death

The bird in space, the fish on land, man in condominiums. ↗

— Bauvard

#environment #evolution #nature #society #death

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it’s death. ↗

— David Levithan

#freedom #life #death

Strange, how death had a way of turning a table upside down in an instant. It swept away all the dust that covered treasures, blew the fog from one’s view, knocked away facades. ↗

— Julianne MacLean

#death

A person should be buried only half a meter, or two feet, below the surface. Then a tree should be planted there. He should be buried in a coffin that decays so that when you plant a tree on top the tree will take something out of his substance and change it into tree-substance. When you visit the grave you don’t visit a dead man, you visit a living being who was just transformed into a tree. You say, “This is my grandfather, the tree is growing well, fantastic.” You can develop a beautiful forest that will be more beautiful than a normal forest because the trees will have their roots in graves. It will be a park, a place for pleasure, a place to live, even a place to hunt. ↗

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

#beauty

We thought we were invincible and Dominic proved us all wrong,” - Jesse Carlisle ↗

— Nina D'Angelo

#death #invincibility #love #pain #passion