#rational

When Aslan Bears his teeth winter meets its death. When he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#death

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#philosophy #death

The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#philosophy #death

He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#death #inspirational #loss #love #death

no matter how ugly the world gets or how stupid it shows me it is, I always have faith ↗

— Gerard Way

#faith

I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death ↗

— Aeschylus

#inspirational #death

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#inspirational #religion #faith

Once a thing is set to happen, all you can do is hope it won't. Or will-depending. As long as you live, there’s always something waiting, and even if it’s bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can’t stop living. ↗

— Truman Capote

#death #fate #inspirational #life #living

Live because you're dying. Tomorrow is no more guaranteed than the next hour. No minute is minuscule; every second is a new breath that fills the lungs with life. ↗

— Bron Dayvid

#fear #inspirational #life #time #death

The ripple effect. You throw a pebble into the water and it creates ripples. Your action was to throw the pebble—the representation of your choice. That’s all that you can control. But not the ripples—those are the consequences of your choice. And that you cannot control. ↗

— Michele Bardsley

#inspirational #life #inspirational