For where else can I go to sample daily the richness of life in all its profound chaos?
Theresa BrownTags: medicine life-and-death
Some had come to look upon death as a mercy. Death meant warmth. Death was light. Life was cruel, cold, heavy and dark. Life was pain. Death was deliverance, and many would welcome it. Others doggedly clung to life and willed themselves to walk on.
Sage SteadmanTags: perseverance life-and-death finding-strength
The dead tread softly... And those stalking the living tread even more lightly.
C.M. PalovTags: adventure death fight life-and-death
Fair... You'd be amazed how often I hear that word, Frank Zhang,and how meaningless it is. Is it fair your life will burn so short and bright? Was it fair when I guided your mother to the Underworld? No, not fair. And yet it was her time. There is no fairness in Death. If you free me, I will do my duty.
Rick RiordanTags: life-and-death frank-zhang thantos
The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.
Arundhati RoyTags: life reality carpe-diem death living dream dead dying life-and-death truths alive existing
They continued on to London, and she's there, safe and sound, waiting for you.'
'You can't know for sure.' Piers swung up into the carriage.
'You will never know for sure if she's dead or alive unless you keep her near you all the time,' Sebastian said with perfect, if maddening, accuracy.
Tags: life-and-death
You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them across the long familiar ground that in that moment seems so glorious, so charged with beauty, strange. In their jaws you are carried so effortlessly, with such great care that you think it will never end, you long for it not to end, and then you wake and know that, indeed, they have not brought you back.
Joy WilliamsTags: life animals death death-and-dying life-and-death
He could almost taste the tang of that swampy air right here in his own desert parking lot and hear the calls of the heavily beating flock, sorrowing and apologizing and making plans for some other time. Time. He realized that crows had always reminded him of time, dark time. He gazed at the backs of his hands, at the plummy dark repellent veins.
Joy WilliamsTags: life time death life-and-death crows
Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn’t.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: life death birth life-and-death duration
Nothing matters when you are dead, and, you are dead when nothing matters.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTags: life purpose meaning-of-life death life-and-death
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