#so

Death twitches my ear; 'Live,' he says... 'I'm coming. ↗

— Virgil

#creepy #death #death-and-dying #inspirational #living

We do not create life, we create death. ↗

— Marie Symeou

#deep-thoughts #philosophy #realistic #death

The ocean pulsed outside our window. The sound of the waves crashing on the rocks below usually calmed me down, but the fear and chaos that were tangled in my mind made that an impossibility. ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#death #life #love #reincarnation #soulmates

You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions are upright and benevolent, be assured they will augment your power and happiness. ↗

— Cyrus the Great

#happiness #humor #life #love #philosophy

Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#death

I was confided to your loyalty and accepted by your treason; you offer my death to those to whom you had promised my life. Do you know who it is you are destroying here? It is yourself. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#treason #death

It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death-- ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return. One must negotiate this passage as nobly as possible, for the sake of those who are coming after us. ↗

— James Baldwin

#life #philosophy #death

So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life, making the mechanical motions of living, adopting as your own sets of ideas you've come to any conslusion for yourself as to what life is all about. ↗

— Catherine Marshall

#catherine-marshall #christy #christy-huddleston #death

Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from. ↗

— Albert Camus

#philosophy #death

There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom. Shall we instead choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal as a human being to human beings; remember your humanity, and forget the rest. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#inspirational #peace #philosophy #death