#life

Dark circles under my eyes sink deeper and deeper into my skull, in contrast to my pale skin there is an undeniable resemblance to a fresh corpse. ↗

— Dee Remy

#dying #ego #exhaustion #image #life

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#forget #i #life #like #me

It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth. ↗

— Forrest Carter

#enemies #josey-wales #life #noremorse #death

I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#death

This world that was our home for a brief spell never brought us anything but pain and grief; its a shame that not one of our problems was ever solved. We depart with a thousand regrets in our hearts. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#grief #home #life #pain #poetry

I was not, I was, I am not, I care not. (Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo) ↗

— Epicurus

#existence #life #death

But really, anybody could die any day, whether you were ready or not. It could be your pet fish or your sister or you. Nothing is the same forever. Maybe all the people on Earth are God's little pet fish. God lives such a long time that people's lives probably seem really short to him. He watches them swim for a little while, and then they stop swimming. ↗

— Suzanne LaFleur

#life #death

Life has to end, she said. Love doesn't. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#death #dying #endings #inspirational #life

We cry coming into the world, as everyone around us laughs with joy. And we laugh with joy leaving this world, when everyone around us cries. ↗

— Wendy Corsi Staub

#death #life #death

For the first time his mind grasped the fact that when life has sentenced you to suffer, the sentence is neither a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment, no awakening as from a bad dream. He felt it as a foreboding which struck him with terror. ↗

— Jens Peter Jacobsen

#suffering #dreams