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The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#death #death

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments. ↗

— David Levien

#life #moments #death

Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me. ↗

— Alexander Gordon Smith

#humor #death

you wouldn't happen to have a pipe and a bit of tobacco about, would- i heard that! gandalf enjoyed a good pipe! why do you think he's called gandalf the gray? it wasn't for the color of his robes ↗

— Margaret Weis

#humor #smoking #zifnab #death

Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#humanity #life #philosophy #death

She understood the genre constraints, the decencies were supposed to be observing. The morally cosy vision allows the embrace of monstrosity only as a reaction to suffering or as an act of rage against the Almighty. Vampire interviewee Louis is in despair at his brother’s death when he accepts Lestat’s offer. Frankenstein’s creature is driven to violence by the violence done to him. Even Lucifer’s rebellion emerges from the agony of injured price. The message is clear: By all means become an abomination—but only while unhinged by grief or wrath. ↗

— Glen Duncan

#jake #lestat #lucifer #death

I'm not courting death; I've far too many books left to read. ↗

— Alison Sinclair

#death #life #shadowborn #death

There is a connection between heaven and earth. Finding that connection gives meaning to everything, including death. Missing it makes everything meaningless, including life. ↗

— John H. Groberg

#life #meaning #spiritual #death

The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#life #philosophical #philosophy #death

I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothing… How odd, I thought; it had taken my mother’s death, Father Quinel’s murder, and the desire of others to kill me to claim a life of my own. ↗

— Avi

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