#life

Some solace for nobodies: you will live forever in a metadatabank. Some anxiety: a good deal of that data, if examined, will be embarrassing. ↗

— Bauvard

#hope #humor #life #memory #pain

Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and next year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#life #sorrow #death

Not success. Not growth. Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life … is death. ↗

— Stephen Jenkinson

#life #stephen-jenkinson #death

She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking. ↗

— Angela Carter

#dream #life #reality #sleeping #waking

Unser Wissen vom Leben beschränkt sich auf den Tod. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#life #death

Cancer doesn’t give a shit how much you want to live. If it wants to kill you, it will. ↗

— A.S. King

#death #life #death

Death moved in the night, in search for blood, and when it found Life, it passed on by, like a cloud that moves by the face of the moon. When he found those dead without the red, he took the life before them born first, and the mourning emptied itself till the morning. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#blood #exodus #freedom #israel #life

Personal effects: how irrelevant they are, how sad, how lost, how vagrant, without the force that gives them purpose. ↗

— Sarah Hall

#life #losing-someone #personal-effects #death

I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important thing in my life. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#life #change

If death be the last thing I do, why, I pray the gods and heroes of my people that I try to do it as well as I have done more pleasant things. ↗

— Alice Borchardt

#fantasy #life #death