#death

When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives. ↗

— Paul Gerhardt

#lies #lives #man #men #pale

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order. ↗

— David Gerrold

#be grateful #die #dirt #eat #face

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse. ↗

— Mike Gravel

#died #dying #entire #know #more

I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot. It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone. ↗

— Brian Andreas

#empty #heaven #death

The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant...I AM HAUNTED BY HUMANS. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#death #the-book-thief #words #death

Love doesn't go anywhere when you die, you know. The person passes on, the body withers, but love, it survives. ↗

— Sarah Strohmeyer

#love #death

But then, as I rotated gloopily to check out the scene, who did I see next? Let's just say when your archenemy's trapped you in a place of certain death, and you've survived heroically against all the odds, the last thing you want to see, when you escape at last, is that same archenemy glaring down at you with an expression of annoyed distaste. (Even a different archenemy would have been marginally better.) ↗

— Bartimaeus Trilogy The Amulet of Samarkand

#humor #death

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#grief #life #death

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#clock #come #creepy #death #effects