#life

But spending your life concentrating on death is like watching a whole movie and thinking only about the credits that are going to roll at the end. It’s a mistake of emphasis. ↗

— Nicholson Baker

#life #death

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

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did. ↗

— Richard Ford

#dreams #life #dreams

God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#life #death

For Death is the meaning of night; The eternal shadow Into which all lives must fall, All hopes expire. ↗

— Michael Cox

#life #death