#on

We all know so goddamn well what's best for other people that it seems unnecessary we get to know them before imposing our will on them. ↗

— Taylor Nadeau

#domineering #strongarm #will #death

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

The picture of helpless indolence she calls herself sublimely helpless and impotent I had done living I thought Was ever life so like death before? My face was so close against the tombstones, that there seemed no room for tears. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#depression #life #death

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#inspirational

Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose, its mouth like a gaping maw; its eyes, two giant wormholes, twisting and bending with some apparitional substance that could have been space and time if I’d known anything about physics. ↗

— Shannon Celebi

#apparitional #dead #death #death-and-dying #eye

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#act #civil #civil society #heart #liberal

La gente de las Tierras Fértiles no podía mantener los ojos puestos en esa muerte; y menos que nadie, los guerreros del sur de Los Confines. Un guerrero mataba a un guerrero y la honra se repartía entre ambos. Lo que Kume había sufrido no era muerte. Tenía nombres de vergüenza que un guerrero temía cargar a la eternidad. ↗

— Liliana Bodoc

#honor #death

Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between--Is my journey’s end coming? ↗

— Herman Melville

#human-condition #humanity #life #mortality #death

Birth pushes, death pulls; only you can slow the time between. ↗

— Jack Sanger

#death

He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#description #wine #wine-bottle #death