#pre

What are you supposed to do - stop practicing law whenever one of your friends becomes president? ↗

— Edward Bennett Williams

#friends #law #practicing #president #stop

Because there was only one thing worse than dying. And that was knowing you were going to die. And where. And how. (“Death Ship”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

#dying #precognition #death

I hadn't thought about Mom as much as I probably should have lately. It was a relief not to have all those emotional waves rolling through me at the mere vision of her face in my mind. Letting go of all the negative thoughts was like blowing out a giant gulp of air that I'd been holding in for what seemed like eternity. ↗

— Karen Ann Hopkins

#depression #emotions #grief #death

Perfect preservation isn't life, it’s death. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#life #preservation #death

If the children, don't grow up our bodies get bigger but our hearts get torn up, we're just a million little gods causing rain storms turning every good thing to rust. I guess we'll just have to adjust. ↗

— Arcade Fire

#growing-up #repression #death

adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#cried #depression #friends #death

But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#around #businesses #diversified #each #had

By living exclusively for the present, we let ourselves be hemmed in by an ocean of death. Conversely, by reviving the past, we enlarge our living space. ↗

— Amin Maalouf

#life #past #present #death

Mientras pensamos en el presente, se está convirtiendo en pasado. ↗

— Qiu Xiaolong

#presente #death

Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#choice #death #destiny #fate #fiction