#th

However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels... ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#family-relationships #love #loved-ones #rosamund-lupton #sister

We’re beings towards death, we’re featherless two-legged linguistically conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose bodies will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms. That’s us. ↗

— Cornel West

#philosophy-of-life #death

I always have the feeling we are merely fearfully trying to save room for God; I would rather speak of God at the center than at the limits, in strength rather than weakness, and thus in human life and goodness rather than in death and guilt. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#worship #death

it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger ↗

— Kate Grenville

#perception #death

In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#strength

It came to that" the first time you sentenced a man to death that you knew to be innocent. ↗

— Abby Mann

#death

It is poor solace to speak of the passing of time and grief," the master said. His quiet voice had gone somehow bleak, though Araene could not decide where in his unchanging tone the difference lay. "We do not wish our grief to fade, for it marks the love and honor in which we held our lost kinsmen. Nevertheless, permit me to assure you that while you may find peace a barren desert, yet eventually it may bloom. ↗

— Rachel Neumeier

#grief #death

All the roads of life end in death. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#death

Mein gutes altes kroatisches Herz beschleunigte von Walzer zu Death Metal. ↗

— Hallgrímur Helgason

#music #death

Arrows give life direction. And if one goes through your heart, it can even point you towards death. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #death