168 quotes found
“Like a firework, a person’s life flashed brightest right before expiration.”
“Everything had life to me,’ he heard Enkidu murmur, ‘the sky, the storm, the earth, water, wandering, the moon and its three children, salt, even my hand had life. It’s gone. It’s gone.”
“"If I was afraid of dying, I couldn't do half the shit I do." I told him.”
“How fun it would be to bounce on the back of Lidewij Vliegenthart’s bike down the brick streets, her curly red hair blowing into my face, the smell of the canals and cigarette smoke, all the people...”
“When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.”
“I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.”
“I would not be dying if it were not for her. I would have stayed home, as I have always stayed home, and I would have been safe, and I would have done the one thing I have always wanted to do, whic...”
“Dying is beautiful- even the first time around, at the ripe old age of 20. It’s not easy most of the time, but there is real beauty to be found in knowing that your end is going to catch up with yo...”
