#death

I didn't cry when they buried my father - I wouldn't let myself. I didn't cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis played out the fifth set of their moving second-round match. ↗

— Greg Garber

#life #sports #tennis #death

I was learning that when you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#dying #memories #time #death

I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#death

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. ↗

— Joseph Hall

#birth #borders #cradle #grave #our

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#congratulate #death #dream #may #moment

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn. ↗

— B. R. Hayden

#great #hinges #human #love #sympathies

He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing. ↗

— Anne Heche

#anything #blessing #deathbed #deluded #even

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

#anxiety #become #death #face #free

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. ↗

— Keith Henson

#death #family #friends #friends and family #intense

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#beat #believe #could #death #elderly