#death

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. Not that all months aren't rare. But one strange year, halloween came early....don't you ditch me jim nightshade...don't talk death. Someone might hear... ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dark #halloween #jim #will #death

Los dos se llamaban Rafael y ambos habían hecho un juramento, lucharon juntos, murieron y fueron enterrados en la misma tumba..." Como no sabía muy bien lo que hacía, extendió la mano hacia Regis y tomó la de él en la suya. Dijo, "Me gustaría morir así. ¿A ti no? ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

#death

death can bring grief, but your friends can bring you comfort. ↗

— Jairus Simonelli

#death

Früher wusste man (oder vielleicht ahnte man es), dass man den Tod in sich hatte wir die Frucht den Kern. Die Kinder hatten einen kleinen und die Erwachsenen einen großen. Die Frauen hatten ihn im Schoß und die Männer in der Brust. Den hatte man, und das gab einem eine eigentümliche Würde und einen stillen Stolz. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#death

Your father was no longer a young man. he was already in his fifties.' Fifty-six,' Eddie said blankly. Fifty-six,' the old woman repeated. 'His body had been weakened, the ocean had left him vulnerable, pneumonia took hold of him, and in time, he died.' Because of Mickey?' Eddie said. Because of loyalty,' she said. People don’t die because of loyalty.' They don’t?' she smiled. 'Religion? government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?' Eddie shrugged. Better,' she said, 'To be loyal to one another. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#loyalty #death

Smartass Disciple: Master, what will happen to the men right after their death ? Master of Stupidity: They live with a same or different part of their consciousness. ↗

— Toba Beta

#forever #live #soul #death

Out of kindness, we stopped the predators, and the deer herd expanded until it starved. Out of compassion we taught the primitives hygiene, and their death rate plummeted, their population exploded, and then famine. Out of empathy we sent food and taught them to live with other tribes under the same government. Again their population doubled, and famine set in with genocide. The scale of suffering had only been magnified by the hubris of liberals trying to do good. ↗

— Perry Lorenz

#genocide #noremorse #death

H...a....n...n...a...h......B...a...k...e..r....R...I...P... ↗

— AKA

#death #peace #rest #thirteen #death

You think to judge me, MacKinnon? I've littered the ground wi' the corpses of men like you." Iain raised his blade and smiled. "You've never met a man like me. ↗

— Pamela Clare

#historical-romance #scotsmen #death

Life into death— Life’s other shape, No rupture, Only crossing. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#crossing #death #dejan-stojanovic #life #literature