#eat

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space. ↗

— Amin Maalouf

#life #past #present #death

I never liked the influence of others when it came to feelings. I rather went through the painful process of analyzing everything half to death. ↗

— Erika M. Szabo

#indie-author #romance-novels #death

Don Bradman will bat no more against England, and two contrary feelings dispute within us: relief, that our bowlers will no longer be oppressed by this phenomenon; regret, that a miracle has been removed from among us. So must ancient Italy have felt when she heard of the death of Hannibal. ↗

— R.C. Robertson-Glasgow

#bradman #cricket #england #hannibal #italy

I discovered the bleeding when he licked my hand and left a swath of blood behind, death's autograph. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#death

After I am dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. ↗

— Cato

#death

We are all created by desire and we all die because of desire. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#desire #death

Automobiles are often conveniently tagged as the villains responsible for the ills of cities and the disappointments and futilities of city planning. But the destructive effect of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#death

I do believe in hell as a state of being or consciousness, and I believe that people can dwell in hell and that many do, right now, today, on this earth before rather than after death. I will argue ... that hell is the most erroneous, oudated, misunderstood, and misguided dogma in all of Christianity, and the one that must be discarded if this spiritual tradition is to survive as anything more than a contemptable curiosity. ↗

— Carlton D. Pearson

#death

Jews and Christians wait, the whole world waits,and there are many who wait for death ↗

— Anne Frank

#death

I held onto Caeden’s neck with one hand and used the other to keep my dress from flashing my fanny at any unsuspecting woodland creatures. The sight might shock them to death. ↗

— Micalea Smeltzer

#death