#at

I wish I could recommend the experience of not being killed to everyone. ↗

— Tim Kreider

#survival #death

Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but it's not the result of venal bureaucrats. (1994) p. 99 ↗

— Philip K. Howard

#bureaucrats #conservative #corruption #government #plato

Pop quizzes were killers. Like ambushing assassins they elicited fear and loathing in the prey, and a certain heady power in the hunter. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#death

adulthood is depressing. for me at least. i cried at the death of every illusion harder than i cried at the death of friends. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#cried #depression #friends #death

Dying’s easy. It’s living that’s hard. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#dying #easy #hard #life #living

It's a long walk back to Eden, sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff. ↗

— Stephen King

#eden #insomnia #stephen-king #death

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history. ↗

— Albert Camus

#happiness #history #misery #death

Eve: "Where's Mister Scary?" Roarke: "Summerset has the night off." Eve: "You mean the house is Summerset-free? Damn shame we have to waste it with work. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#suspense #death

You may not have money, you may not have medicine, you may not have miracles, but you do have words, and they can produce life, or death depending on how you use them. ↗

— Rick Cochran

#death

Bad enough when the dead come walking,"he said (Dolorous Edd) to Jon, "now the Old Bear wants them talking as well? No good will come of that, I'll warrant. And who's to say the bones wouldn't lie? Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints-the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do. . . . ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#death