#death

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#marriage #philosophy #death

To have been torn from the study would have been as death; my time was entirely occupied with art. ↗

— John James Audubon

#been #death #entirely #my time #occupied

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#death #fear #live #man #never

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#desires #flesh #hard #impressions #make

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#despise #else #like #nature #welcome

Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#hope #life #change

I'm so sorry, Henri," I whisper in his ear. I close my eyes. "I love you. I wouldn't have missed a second of it, either. Not for anything," I whisper. "I'm going to take you back yet. Somehow I am going to get you back to Lorien. We always joked about it but you were my father, the best father I could have ever asked for. I'll never forget you, not for a minute for as long as I live. I love you, Henri. I always did. ↗

— Pittacus Lore

#father-and-son #death

I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What. ↗

— John Green

#grief #life #life-and-death #death

I'm sorry? No more smooches is worse than the world ending? ↗

— Derek Landy

#humor #skulduggery-pleasant #valkyrie-cain #death

It was a romantic tale saying we were more than our bodies our soul lives on after death. We shed the outer body but the important bits the soul and heart lives on for eternity ↗

— Annette J. Dunlea

#annette-j-dunlea #irish-writer #death