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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

Death chased you Natalie. You have lived your life surrounded by it. You seek it. You creep around in dark places searching for it but you are afraid of it aren’t you? ↗

— Nicole T. Smith

#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

Ah, Loree," he whispered near her ear. "You should hear the music." -Austin ↗

— Lorraine Heath

#lorraine-heath #texas-splendor #music

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

The law of God was more vindicated by the death of Christ than it would have been had all transgressors been sent to Hell. For the Son of God to suffer for sin was a more glorious establishment of the government of God, than for the whole race to suffer. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#christianity #gospel #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