#life

How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die. ↗

— Rachel Ward

#life #living #death

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either. ↗

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

#life #death

The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapidly--what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#power-of-words #words #writing-process #life

A boy needs a father to show him how to be in the world. He needs to be given swagger, taught how to read a map so that he can recognize the roads that lead to life and the paths that lead to death, how to know what love requires, and where to find steel in the heart when life makes demands on us that are greater than we think we can endure. ↗

— Ian Morgan Cron

#life #death

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#fleet #funny #gormenghast #life #life-lessons

If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you’re going to have problems. You’ll be dead a lot. ↗

— Dean Smith

#life-and-death #death

Grief shared was grief lessened. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#grief #life #death

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---"On death ↗

— John Keats

#dream #john-keats #life #sleep #death

Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#desperation #good-and-bad #good-and-evil #grief #hopelessness

Dead is dead. For whatever reason. And in choice between life and death, there is no other choice. ↗

— David Levithan

#insperational #life #death