#death

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#cancer #could #crying #death #decided

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#death #disease #expression #interest #life

Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#cynicism #dead #death #death

I don't want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined in what is etched in the lives and hearts of those I've touched. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#death-and-dying #kindness #service #death

But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#death #gifts #gods #immortality #youth

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states. ↗

— Burke Marshall

#american #concept #death #death penalty #different

I wrapped my hands around the familiar cup and tried to draw strength from it. It was from Thea's old Moss Rose set, remnant of careful scrimping and saving in her first year of marriage. Yet the mellow old cup now brought me no comfort, only a feeling of helplessness, of time slipping away. Sunday-best dishes gone to everyday and now to mismatched pieces. Like Thea and me ↗

— Lorena McCourtney

#friendship #old-age #age

Those who are afraid of what comes after death because it is unknown may tend to be those who cannot face the unknown in life. ↗

— Robert E. Neale

#art

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#death

Here’s what I know: death abducts the dying, but grief steals from those left behind. ↗

— Katherine Owen

#heroine-s-journey #loss #love #romance #death