#dying

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#dying #every #every day #i #life

We are so afraid of the idea of having to die… that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn… ↗

— José Saramago

#death

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived. ↗

— Willa Cather

#death

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there ↗

— Terence McKenna

#death

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#death-and-dying #god #hate #death

...and understand that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dying #harry-potter #j-k-rowling #knowledge #lessons

This was how the world ended. Not with a bang, but with a whimper. ↗

— Andrea Speed

#death

Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre. ↗

— Paul L. Maier

#flames #rome #death

When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dying #fear #fear-of-dying #death

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and--what will perhaps make you wonder more--it takes the whole of life to learn how to die. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#dying #learning #life #living #time