#dying

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#dying #death

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. ↗

— Albert Camus

#death #dying #life #living #death

When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!" ~Jim Elliot ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#dying #jim-elliot #truth #death

If you want me again look for me under your boot soles. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#poetry #death

Be calm. God awaits you at the door. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#death-and-dying #serenity #death

It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#war #death

Death was a friend, and sleep was Death's brother. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#sleep #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

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

— Andrea Speed

#death