#ife

Anyone in this world can have the power of life and death over someone else. It's horrible, but true. All you need to do is take it. And once you have -- there is no going back. (The Killer's Cousin) ↗

— Nancy Werlin

#life #death

The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#death #endurance #life #steadfastness #strength

Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage. ↗

— Warren Ellis

#death

Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains. ↗

— Peter Heller

#dying #life #nature #death

WAKING AT NIGHT The blue river is grey at morning and evening. There is twilight at dawn and dusk. I lie in the dark wondering if this quiet in me now is a beginning or an end. ↗

— Jack Gilbert

#depression #life #poetry #silence #death

Life is stressful,dear. That's why they say "rest in peace. ↗

— David Mazzucchelli

#life #death

Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#exhale #goals #inhale #manifestation #quotes

We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life #resignation #death

Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand. ↗

— T.E. Lawrence

#fate #life-sentence #death

There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this. ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#j-a-redmerski #life #logic #purpose #the-edge-of-never