#de

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. ↗

— Charles Bower

#ideas #innovation #death

He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain! ↗

— Tim Burton

#death

I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there. ↗

— Pamela Bone

#death #euthanasia #right-to-die #death

I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. ↗

— Jessica Dovey

#social-justice #death

Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#humor #death

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#slammed #death

I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion. ↗

— Holly Black

#death

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#grief #grieving #loss #stillbirth #death

Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating. ↗

— Tasha Alexander

#fascinating #death

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death. ↗

— Ingrid Betancourt

#gifts #death