#am

You only live twice: Once when you're born And once when you look death in the face. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#james-bond #philosophy #poetry #death

There is only one god and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: “Not today. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#motto #death

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#death #game #i #life #order

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did. ↗

— Richard Ford

#dreams #life #dreams

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#accept #here #i #me #same

I want to scream sometimes, because I hate when people refer to a dead person as the “late” so and so. I’m sorry to break that bad news, but that person isn’t just late—they’re not even coming! ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dead #death #funny #hate #late

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying ↗

— Gerard Way

#fame #immortality #death

I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less conflicted now. I thought about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we're going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death. Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#death

Death smells like birthday cake. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#death

But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#hunger-games #death