#death

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#change

Preparing for death is one of the most empowering things you can do. Thinking about death clarifies your life. ↗

— Candy Chang

#life #change

The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits. ↗

— Bill Gates

#death #each #eu #even #fad

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat. ↗

— Orlando Gibbons

#death #had #her #living #note

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs. ↗

— Thomas Kyd

#eyes #form #fountains #fraught #life

Names turned over by time, like the plough turning the soil. Bringing up the new while the old were buried in the mud. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#fame #names #time #death

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#death #doing #once #only #proven

Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living. ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#suicide #death

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#gratitude #death

I glimpsed the man's face with the shine of death on it. They laid him down there in the open. They had brought him there to be close to his death, I understood this also at the same moment. For who would wish to see a companion gasp his last on a jolting cart? We desire to keep the dying and the newly dead close before our eyes so as to give them full meed of pity. Our Lord was brought down to be pitied, on the Cross He was too far away. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#dying #pity #death