#deaths

But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths. ↗

— Donna Shalala

#awful #bright #bright future #death #deaths

Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today. ↗

— Hal Stratton

#deaths #each #greater #number #poisoning

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success. ↗

— Amy Tan

#always #been #brother #deaths #failure

A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite a few deaths, and, with one exception, I've never known anyone to undergo anything like agony. That's amazing when you think about it. I mean, how complicated the mechanism is that's being taken apart. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#agony #amazing #anyone #anything #apart

Even in terms of fiction, nothing in their lives became them like the leaving of it. King Fjolnir rose in the night to make water, fell into a vat of mead and drowned instead; Sveigdir ran after a dwarf when drunk and vanished into a boulder; Vanlandi was trampled to death by a nightmare; Domaldi was sacrificed for good seasons; Dag was struck on the head with a pitchfork when seeking revenge for his sparrow; and so on down to the fifth century. ↗

— Gwyn Jones

#vikings #death

When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives. ↗

— Paul Gerhardt

#lies #lives #man #men #pale

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse. ↗

— Mike Gravel

#died #dying #entire #know #more

All architects want to live beyond their deaths. ↗

— Philip Johnson

#architects #beyond #deaths #live #their

Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#also #better #cancer #deaths #decreased

No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves ... ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#song-of-ice-and-fire #death