#dying

You’ll live for as long as you live, and once you stop living, you don’t have to worry about staying alive any more because you’ll be dead. ↗

— Sebastyne Young

#death

As Ossie Jones crept out of his body and into the mist, his heart murmured till it was silent. ↗

— Biyi Bandele-Thomas

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Sterven is echter de eenzaamste gebeurtenis van het leven. We worden er niet alleen door van anderen afgescheiden, maar daarnaast stelt het ons ook bloot aan een nog angstaanjagender vorm van eenzaamheid: het is een scheiding van de wereld zelf. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

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...Death," she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place. ↗

— Vicki Pettersson

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This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

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Excerpt: Paradox – Bound By Blood. The hands on a clock never falter, not for a second. One day ends; and a new begins. If there was one thing on this earth that could be counted on, it was that. Time never paused to mourn the dead. That particular privilege is allotted to the living. It is for the survivor to mourn, bury the dead, and leave the rest to the earth. That is the way of it – the way of death - and the misery it leaves behind. ↗

— Patti Roberts

#mourn #time-passing #death

We're always on breath away from something--living or dying--, sometimes it just can't be helped. ↗

— Heather Gudenkauf

#death #dying #life #life-and-death #living

This is unbelievable,” James said. “I mean, you guys are out here planning to build an armored car out of my dad’s old, and I mean old, car. Mom is in the house making cookies like this is just an everyday occurrence. Once this starts, you guys probably won’t live through it, and nobody is acting like it’s a big deal. I don’t know that I’m comfortable with my parents preparing for their funeral.” “Everyone has to die of something, son,” Rick said. James looked stunned. “So you are thinking about that as a possibility? Then why go to all the trouble of putting armor on the car and putting in that big engine?” “Because I have to get back to the starting point, which in this case is the Deal’s Gap,” Rick answered. “And the car won’t make it if I don’t make modifications.” “Once they figure out what you’re doing and where you’re going, they’ll ambush you. You won’t be able to get out of it. They’ll gun you and Mom down in cold blood.” James was trying to hide the emotion from his face. ↗

— Rich Hoffman

#life-lesson #life-philosophy #death

Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?' ...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#dying #inevitability #life #living #death

It's all a waste of time. Everything begins only to end. The moment you were born you began to die. That's how it is with everything. Pierre Anthon ↗

— Janne Teller

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