#de

What kind of a maniac needed over five thousand plates? ↗

— J.D. Robb

#roarke #death

When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#john-updike #solipsism #death

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#death #englishmen #kiss #lips #red

Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#eternity #humility #mortality #safety #death

my boyfriend is a rock god baby (and not kiss-of-death(sorry)) ↗

— Rachel Caine

#death

You deserve to die," I whisper, suddenly realizing Iv'e said the words aloud. "Excuse me?" "Nothing." "Not nothing. You just told me that I deserve to be maggot feed." "Not maggot feed, just-" "Dead!" "Forget it" "I don't know why I said that. Just daydreaming, I guess." "Daydreaming about my death?" "Forget it", I repeat. "Are you sure you aren't still mad that I wouldn't let you borrow my vintage fishnet leggings?" "More like I didn't want to borrow them, ↗

— Laurie Faria Stolarz

#humor #kimmie #death

I was such a messed up person and he was still holding on. ↗

— Holly Hood

#love-story #paranormal-romance #thriller #death

Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#death

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult. ↗

— Anne Rice

#devil #god #good #religion #religion

Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#inspiration #olhado #religion #death