#life

This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#mortality #poetry #death

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs. ↗

— Leif Garrett

#each #ends #journey #lifetime #song

It’s quite simple. Death isn’t what we think it is. It isn’t life which ends but time which stops. ↗

— Henri Riviere

#life #time #death

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself. ↗

— Peter Garrett

#life #spend #want #you #your

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#reticence #three #volumes

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations. ↗

— John Banville

#death #grief #immortality #life-goes-on #loss

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life. ↗

— Jennie Garth

#camera #front #i #just #know

Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to. ↗

— Paul Gascoigne

#get #going #hopefully #i #just

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#existence #itself #life #negation #than

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#hero #his #learned #learned man #life