#ira

When Aslan Bears his teeth winter meets its death. When he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#death

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#philosophy #death

The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#philosophy #death

He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#death #inspirational #loss #love #death

If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy, in peace, and in generosity. For these things, these are not mere words, but acts, which go all the way, right up to their last breath. Even their death is a gift, and resurrection is born from this kind of death. (157) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#bodhisattva #buddhism #buddhist #christ #christianity

no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith ↗

— Gerard Way

#faith

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death ↗

— Aeschylus

#inspirational #death

I don't know whether to be proud or appalled that danger, blood and death inspire you so. ↗

— Samantha Young

#danger #death #humor #inspiration #death

Peabody, you never cease to amaze me." "One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers." "Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime." "Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#grandmother #lovers #death

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#inspirational #religion #faith