#de

in this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#fuck #death

You can call me what you like, but I will be taking your cake. -L (from Death Note) ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#l #tsugumi-ohba #death

Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever before. Why had he never appreciated what a miracle he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart? It would all be gone...or at least, he would be gone from it. His breath came slow and deep, and his mouth and throat were completely dry, but so were his eyes. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

They’re evacuating the younger kids and everyone’s meeting in the Great Hall to get organized. We’re fighting. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

After all, to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #death

You can not die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims with time. It is the way of things. There comes a day when you smile again, and you feel like a traitor. How dare I feel happy. How dare I be glad in a world where my father is no more. And then you cry fresh tears, because you do not miss him as much as you once did, and giving up your grief is another kind of death. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#grief #death

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#mythos #death

So wise so young, they say, do never live long. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#wisdom #youth #death

I wanted to kill the me underneath. That fact haunted my days and nights. When you realize you hate yourself so much, when you realize that you cannot stand who you are, and this deep spite has been the motivation behind your behavior for many years, your brain can’t quite deal with it. It will try very hard to avoid that realization; it will try, in a last-ditch effort to keep your remaining parts alive, to remake the rest of you. This is, I believe, different from the suicidal wish of those who are in so much pain that death feels like relief, different from the suicide I would later attempt, trying to escape that pain. This is a wish to murder yourself; the connotation of kill is too mild. This is a belief that you deserve slow torture, violent death. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#self-hatred #death

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#gender-roles #death