#death

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#useless #death

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#end #fools #life #living #over

We are graced with a godlike ability to transcend time and space in our minds but are chained to death. ↗

— Russell Shorto

#godlike #minds #transcend #death

Preaching the gospel to myself each day mounts a powerful assault against my pride and serves to establish humility in its place. Nothing suffocates my pride more than daily reminders regarding the glory of my God, the gravity of my sins, and the crucifixion of God’s own Son in my place. Also, the gracious love of God, lavished on me because of Christ’s death, is always humbling to remember, especially when viewed against the backdrop of the Hell I deserve. ↗

— Milton Vincent

#death

Dying on your own terms, this is the greatest gift anyone can bestow upon a mortal man. ↗

— Mario Stinger

#immortality #death

Without death, life would have no boundaries and our days would not be so precious. My mother was a firm believer in the common sense of nature. ↗

— Bernadette Pajer

#life #death

Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies ↗

— Yasmine Galenorn

#enemies #words #death

Everyone’s talking about the death and disappearance of the book as a format and an object. I don’t think that will happen. I think whatever happens, we have to figure out a way to protect our imaginations. Stories and poetry do that. You need a language in this world. People want words, they want to hear their situation in language, and find a way to talk about it. It allows you to find a language to talk about your own pain. If you give kids a language, they can use it. I think that’s what these educators fear. If you really educate these kids, they aren’t going to punch you in the face, they are going to challenge you with your own language. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#literacy #online-interview #power-of-reading #reading #death

The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#death #life #philosophical #thoughts #death

Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at all, life was all there was. And death. ↗

— Tim Winton

#tim-winton #death