#life

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life [Angus Tuck] ↗

— Natalie Babbitt

#missed-chances #death

in the ONLY 1 life we live, we have thousands of tears, millions of smiles, you take some...you give some... ↗

— Umesh

#experience

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. ↗

— David Deida

#living #love #suffering #death

The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#dune #life #death

He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life #death

If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died, the dream was over, you woke up. That's what people meant when they talked about going to heaven. It was like waking up. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#dreaming #heaven #life #waking-up #death

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#life #philosophy #sun #death

Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why. ↗

— Glen Cook

#death #life #wisdom #death

The only true borders lie between day and night, between life and death, between hope and loss. ↗

— Erin Hunter

#boundaries #day #death #hope #life

You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night. ↗

— Alexander Gordon Smith

#life #death