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#1

“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.”
― Antonio Porchia

tags: death, hope, immortality, life, memory, remembrance

#2

“When you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead? Nobody.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

tags: cemetery, death, funeral-rites, holden

2006 likes

#3

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
― Helen Keller

tags: blindness, death, faith, inspirational, wisdom

1904 likes

#4

“Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I have a call.”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel

tags: death

1884 likes

#5

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: death, life, wordplay

1665 likes

#6

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
― Anais Nin

tags: death, love

22139 likes

#7

“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: death, dumbledore, harry, inspirational, philosophers-stone, ron, sorcerers-stone

25339 likes

#8

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: belief, death, ideals, martyr, truth

8182 likes

#9

“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E. E. Cummings

tags: death, life, poetry

5658 likes

#10

“When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

tags: death, inspirational, voice

3771 likes

#11

“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: death, life, r-i-p, steve

1948 likes

#12

“The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

333 likes

#13

“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

tags: age, old

324 likes

#14

“No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

tags: love

400 likes

#15

“No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

121 likes

#16

“Morality, too, is a question of time.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

135 likes

#17

“Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

tags: madness, peace, war

77 likes

#18

“For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

tags: love

23 likes

#19

“Es imposible no terminar siendo como los otros creen que uno es. (Atribuido a Julio César)”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

9 likes

#20

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts On Common Things

tags: hope, imagination, inspirational

9215 likes

#21

“I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight

tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars

11067 likes

#22

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

tags: hope

4023 likes

#23

“There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you.”
― Bjork

331 likes

#24

“I have some bad news. Bjork cannot be here tonight. She was trying on her Oscar dress and Dick Cheney shot her.”
― Jon Stewart

tags: comedy, political

37 likes

#25

“Who would have known
That a boy like him
Would have entered me lightly
Restoring my blisses

Who would have known
That a boy like him
After sharing my core
Would stay going nowhere”
― Bjork - Cocoon

tags: love

10 likes

#26

“I don't see myself as weird, I just see myself as honest.”
― Tori Amos

135 likes

#27

“Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much. But you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.”
― Tori Amos

tags: tori-amos

112 likes

#28

“Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don`t fit into boxes.”
― Tori Amos

tags: wonderful

97 likes

#29

“When you've got the virgin and the whore sitting next to each other, they're likely to judge each other harshly.
”
― Tori Amos

67 likes

#30

“I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.
”
― Tori Amos

76 likes