#death

I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#love #poetry #death

I swear I will never mention love or death inside a house, And I swear I never will translate myself at all, only to him or her who privately stays with me in the open air. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#death

Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a bracelet of bright hair about the bone. ↗

— John Fowles

#death

I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story. ↗

— Dan McCurrigan

#courage #death #emotional #hero #humanity

Most people get excited over new cars; I get excited over death certificates. It's no wonder my husband worries about my state of mind. ↗

— Rett MacPherson

#humor #death

That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom? ↗

— David Levithan

#evan #death

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live. ↗

— Norman Cousins

#life-and-living #death

Once a patient goes brain dead and relatives sign his organ donation consent form, he will get the best medical treatment of his life. A hospital code blue may be a call for doctors to rush to the bedside of a beating heart cadaver who needs his or her heart defibrillated. ↗

— Dick Teresi

#cadavers #health-care #heart-attack #death

If we can't face death, we'll never overcome it. You have to look it straight in the eye. Then you can turn around and walk back out into the light. ↗

— Maya Lin

#back #death #eye #face #into

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#death #i #i think #irish #think