#dying

Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed. ↗

— Anne Enright

#death

Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#dying #easy #hard #life #living

Death walks among us ↗

— S.K.N. Hammerstone

#angel-of-death #angels-and-demons #death-and-dying #skn-hammerstone #death

DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#dying #life #morbid #death

.....listening means learning to hear someone's inner world and deepest feelings with far greater attention in order that we don't let our own assumptions get in the way. The dying may speak in images far more akin to dreamland than the world of everyday reality. In order to understand them we have to make adjustments to comprehend a poetic form of expression that is sometimes elusive but actually far more expressive than the world of facts. ↗

— Robert L. Wise

#death #dying #heaven #hell #hospice

One should part from life as Ulysses parted from Nausicaa-- blessing it rather than in love with it. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#death

Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#death

I discovered the bleeding when he licked my hand and left a swath of blood behind, death's autograph. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#death

To the wizard death is merely a belief. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#spirituality #death

I don't want to be dying. I want to be dead. ↗

— girl

#desire #dying #want #death