#death

When I die, this is the only gold that will go with me. What does one take after death? Just one's good deeds and the love of others. ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#death

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#love #memories #death

If you truly live, you will never truly die! ↗

— Melanie M. Grace

#life #real-life #death

I read not so long ago about the construction of a large telescope in Chile's Atacama Desert, where rainfall can average a millimetre a year and the air is fifty times as dry as the air in Death Valley. Needless to say, skies over the Atacama are pristine. The pilgrim astronomer ventures to the earth’s ravaged reaches in order to peer more keenly at other worlds, and I suppose the novelist is up to something similar. ↗

— Brad Leithauser

#astronomy #chile #metaphor #novelists #telescope

Mr Ramsay, stumbling along a passage one dark morning, stretched his arms out, but Mrs Ramsay having died rather suddenly the night before, his arms, though stretched out, remained empty. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#death

I'm not afraid of death, I'm just not sure there is life after the honeymoon. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#honeymoon #marriage #death

Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die. Mormont: Nor life, I hope. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#fear #life #death

Two Things to be accepted for sure in life time? 1. Birth 2. Death ↗

— Deepak Yadav

#death

The old world told men merely about to live and to die. Today men think about defeating death and resurrection. ↗

— Toba Beta

#forever-live #live #resurrection #death

His death took place on the same day, at the same time of the same month as Katie’s: Monday 12th November at 4am in the morning, on her tenth year anniversary. The old radio suddenly came live and the song Immortality by Celine Dion played. Emma proved you can love the man and hate the disease. She was relieved Ronan’s suffering had ended and that he had gone before her as he was so ill ↗

— Annette J. Dunlea

#annette-j-dunlea #irish-writer #death