#dying

We die well when we die with purpose fulfilled". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#fulfilling-purpose #purpose-in-life #r-alan-woods #death

I don't think you're dying," I said. "I think you've just got a touch of cancer. ↗

— John Green

#dying #cancer

Being dead does have its advantages.”-Alastor ↗

— Dana Michelle Burnett

#death #dying #ghost #ghosts #haunted-houses

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#death-of-a-loved-one #memories #remembering #death

Σίμωσε στο πιάνο και πήρε μερικά ακόρντα. Κείνη τη στιγμή΄έσπασε με κρότο μια χορδή κι έσβησε σ' ένα μακρόσυρτο και τρεμάμενο ήχο... -Ακούς Νιέτοτσκα, ακούς; ρώτησε, ξαφνικά με μια εμπνευσμένη φωνή, δείχνοντας το πιάνο. Τεντώσανε πολύ, πάρα πολύ τούτη τη χορδή· δεν μπόρεσε άλλο να βαστάξει και πέθανε. Ακούς, τι λυπητερά που πεθαίνουν οι ήχοι! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#melancholy #death

I've been ready to die since before you was Born! ↗

— Marvel Comics

#death

I was finally beginning to perceive that no matter how many dead people I might see, or people at the instant of their death, I would never manage to grasp death, that very moment, precisely in itself. It was one thing or the other: either you are dead, and then in any case there's nothing else to understand, or else you are not yet dead, and in that case, even with the rifle at the back of your head or the rope around your neck, death remains incomprehensible, a pure abstraction, this absurd idea that I, the only living person in the world, could disappear. Dying, we may already be dead, but we never die, that moment never comes, or rather it never stops coming, there it is, it's coming, and then it's still coming, and then it's already over, without ever having come. ↗

— Jonathan Littell

#death

For everything in life there is always a beginning and an end. This is the tough part the most difficult thing when you see that it’s coming: The end. ↗

— Seve Ballesteros

#imminent-death #death

Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die. ↗

— Jeff Shaara

#dying #war #death

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

#dying #precognition #death