#dying

When death comes you do not stay for one minute in the place it has visited. Many things arrive after death-sadness, questions, and policemen- and none of these can be answered when your papers are not in order. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#death

Is it really worth dying for the person you love?” [Maureen] thinks about this for a moment. “That’s not the real question, Oliver. What you should be asking is, Can you live without her? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#dying #love #maureen #oliver #values

GPs are almost the only doctors these days who understand all problems, can see the whole person…spend time with the dying…see things through to the end. ↗

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

#dying #love

I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence. ↗

— John Keats

#life

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#afraid #all things #cannot #change #dying

As the earth dies your spirit will bloom; as the world fades your soul will rise and glisten. Amongst the dehydrated crevices of a desert earth you will stumble upon your diamonds; in between the dry skulls and cracked bones you will find your sapphires. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#change #diamonds #dying-earth #end #fading-world

Life's funny chucklehead. You only get one and you don't want to throw it away. But you can't really live it at all unless you're willing to give it up for the things you love. If you're not at least willing to die for something-something that really matters-in the end you die for nothing. ↗

— Andrew Klavan

#life #life-worth-living #worth-dying-for #inspirational

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#culture #dead #desires #dying #endlessly

Just make sure that the thing you're living for is worth dying for." --Levi ↗

— Jill Williamson

#inspirational #living #inspirational

I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying. ↗

— Lauren DeStefano

#death #dying #remembering #death