#life

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect. ↗

— John Green

#language #life #writing #death

In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#life #death

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#inspirational #life #death

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in... ↗

— Nick Hornby

#life #survival #death

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#death #inspirational #life #nice #death

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying. ↗

— Albert Camus

#death #dying #life #living #death

What am I dying for? ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#life #death

I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all. ↗

— Susan Beth Pfeffer

#life #death

People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#immortality #life #travel #death

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#life #death