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Once the soul has left the body it had to walk across a bridge as narrow as a knife edge, with paradise on the right and, on the left, a series of circles that lead down into the darkness inside the earth. Before crossing the bridge, each person had to place all his virtues in his right hand and all his sins in his left, and the imbalance between the two meant that the person always fell towards the side to which his actions on Earth had inclined him. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#evil #good #life #death

Nothing is irreversible except dying. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#death

When I came back from death it was morning, the back door was open and one of the buttons of my shirt had disappeared. ↗

— Derick Thomson

#death

The power-hungry wanter their followers to believe that heaven was a place to which some people - and only people - went after death, a place that could be reached by those who had the approval of their organizations. So not even the perfected spirits were able to restore the wholeness of truth, because of interference by the human ego. ↗

— Benjamin Hoff

#taoism #the-te-of-piglet #death

No one wanted to die with secrets in their grave. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#secrets #death

There will come a time,” I said, “when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this”—I gestured encompassingly—“will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does. ↗

— John Green

#death

Time and space were, from Death's point of view, merely things that he'd heard described. When it came to Death, they ticked the box marked Not Applicable. It might help to think of the universe as a rubber sheet, or perhaps not. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#physics #space #time #topology #death

Once you hold the hand of Death, the only thing in life that can scare you is a sense of humor. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#irony #death

You know, darkness is a funny thing. Little by little, it creeps up on you and before you know it, you can’t escape it ↗

— Mackie Burt

#darkness #death #mackie-burt #death

Where death follows, there’s life. When darkness surrounds you in a world of chaos, search and you’ll eventually find the light. ↗

— Lee Argus

#darkness #death #lee-argus #life #metaphor