#eat

In the valleys where I was born they say it is God’s sword, dropped from the heavens.’ ‘Don’t you?’ asked Flood. Whirrun rubbed some dirt from the crosspiece with his thumb. ‘I used too.’ ‘Now?’ ‘God makes things, no? God is a farmer. A craftsman. A midwife. God gives things life.’ He tipped his head back and looked up at the sky. ‘What would God want with a sword? ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#death

If you're a Christian you're just a shadow of your future self. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#resurrection #death

Deep space rendered mortal time-lines inconsequential. Few things were as old, or pervasive, as the vast, encroaching darkness of the universe. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#fairytales #life #philosophy #time #death

The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death. ↗

— Plato

#plato #socrates #death

Before he lets me go, he tells me what life looks like. "There's the walk into battle. The battle itself. And the walk away." It's a cycle we repeat. Every day. Sometimes it's over small stuff. Sometimes it's life and death. ↗

— Suzanne Phillips

#death

Nevješt sam razgovoru sa ženama, pogotovo sa ženama njene ljepote i njenih godina. Oko trideset, čini mi se. Mlade djevojke zamišljaju život i vjeruju riječima. Starice se boje smrti i s uzdahom slušaju o raju. Ovakve znaju vrijednost svega što gube i dobijaju, i uvijek imaju svoje razloge, koji mogu biti čudni, ali su rijetko naivni. Njihove zrele oči su slobodne i kad se obaraju, neugodno otvorene, i kad se skrivaju trepavicama. Najneugodnije je što znamo da one znaju više nego što pokazuju, i da nas mjere svojim neobičnim mjerilima, koja teško saznajemo. ↗

— Meša Selimović

#death

Becky was a weed.  Nobody ever wanted them taking over the bigger, prettier plants.  People went to all extremes to make them go away.  They sprayed poison, pulled until the roots gave way. They felt only like their garden was complete when every tendril was extirpated.  This was how she felt from birth. ↗

— Ruth McLeod-Kearns

#death #drama #family #flowers #love

In my worst moments, all I had to do was recall the love that I felt emanating from those heavenly lights and I could press on. ↗

— Dannion Brinkley

#living-life #death

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all...that life at any price has no value whatever; that life is nothing without the privileges, the prides, the rights, the joys that make it worth living and also worth giving...and that there is something more hideous, more atrocious than war or than death; and that is to live in fear. ↗

— Eve Curie

#humanitarian #inspirational #peace #ww #death

យប់នេះ ខ្ញុំនឹងស្លាប់ ។ ដូច្នេះ ខ្ញុំត្រូវរស់ឲ្យបានពេញលេញក្នុងថ្ងៃនេះ ។ Tonight I will die, So I must live fully in today. ↗

— Thach Preichea Koeun

#life #death