#death

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#death #fighting #old-age #war #youth

I've always been scared to death of pain - afraid, even, to think of it. ↗

— Loretta Young

#always #been #death #even #i

If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#death

If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#death

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#dying #fear #franz #kafka #life

Susannah continued. "If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan. ↗

— Jenny Han

#death

Life is slow dying. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#larkin #life #death

The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creators. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#reality #temporary #death

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress ↗

— W.B. Yeats

#death #poetry #age

I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself... ↗

— Philip Larkin

#age