#dying

But with her eyes closed, she began to whisper. “If you have someone to love, then love. If you have someone to forgive, then forgive. You think, when you’re seventeen, there’s time enough for that, but there’s not. There’s no time at all.” I squeezed her hand, trying to think of how to respond. But she took the burden from me and kept whispering. “You want to know why God gave us people to love? Because that’s the only way we can understand how he feels about us. Desperate and jealous. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#art #artist #dating #death #dying-words

Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death. How would that be? Just how would that be? ↗

— Stephen King

#dying #pain #stress #walk #death

In the moment I faced dying, I finally knew my reason for living. ↗

— Brodi Ashton

#death-and-dying #meaning-of-life #death

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. ↗

— George Orwell

#death-and-dying #future #death

Hey, I know planet earth is dying. So what do you want me to say? Grumble? Give me a break! These all mean that we should live our life to love and to be loved while we still have some time to do that. ↗

— Toba Beta

#end-of-days #laugh-while-you-can #love

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#because #dying #end #epic #out

I don't think it's too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you don't wind up dying of some kind of cancer when you're 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations can't be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest. ↗

— Jello Biafra

#bothered #cancer #clean #clean up #dying

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment. ↗

— Josh Brolin

#artists #compliment #dying #ego #hug

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#death #dying #i #i am #opposite

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. ↗

— Albert Camus

#completely #die #dying #except #freedom