#life

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time, with a gift of tears; Grief, with a glass that ran; Pleasure, with pain for leaven; Summer, with flowers that fell; Remembrance, fallen from heaven, And madness risen from hell; Strength without hands to smite; Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#grief #life #love #madness #mortality

Why do you live? Because I have something worth living for. ↗

— Harry Potter

#harry-potter #hp #life #live #rowling

Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense. ↗

— Morrissey

#life #lyrics #music #humor

The universe that suckled us is a monster that does not care if we live or die--it does not care if it itself grinds to a halt. It is a beast running on chance and death, careening from nowhere to nowhere. It is fixed and blind, a robot programmed to kill. We are free and seeing; we can only try to outwit it at every turn to save our lives. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#universe #death

The young open the paper to forget about life by reading the funny strips. The old do it to forget about death by reading other people's obits. My advice: don't open the paper and go on with your life. ↗

— Gabriel Bá

#life #death

Death is never an excuse to stop living. ↗

— Catherine Johnson

#life #philosophy #death

I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#life #truth #writing #death

The thin line between life and death is still under construction. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#death #life #death

You know, I have to tell you"--I tried to make my voice bright to lighten the moo--"this ring of yours has got to be the ugliest thing I have ever seen." "I'm insulted." He held his hand up to the moonlight and straightened the monstrosity on his finger. "My dad gave this to me when we moved to Michigan.'To remember the old life' he said. I've never taken it off. I look at it and see California." "Remind me never to visit California. ↗

— Linda Gerber

#life #michigan #ring #death

We are only an instant, that's true. But we are eternal. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#inspirational #life #death