#death

The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday. ↗

— Kelly Moran

#death-quotes #life-quotes #death

That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with phantoms. ("Eveline's Visitant") ↗

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

#haunt #oath #revenge #vengeance #death

RELATIONSHIPS ARE SUCH MATTERS WHERE WE CAN NOT HAVE CUT OUT RULES AND SET FRAME OF MINDS BUT CERTAINLY WE CAN AVOID AND DIMINISH THE DEATH RATES ASSOCIATED TO BAD MARRIAGES – WHEN A LIFE IS SAVED, ONE CAN ALWAYS MAKE IT SUCCESSFUL". ↗

— Rashmi Singh

#taming-the-restless-mind #death

The only thing humans are equal in is death. ↗

— Johan Liebert

#naoki-urasawa #death

As he journeyed alone toward the monster that is death, we could do nothing to help him, nor the others still alive; all the words of strength on our lips melted away, our love not great enough to bind them to life, and our hope not enough to will them to live. ↗

— Alfred Nestor

#alfred-nestor #author-alfred-nestor #hitler #hitler-s-germany #nazi-party

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#agatha-christie #bestselling #christie #fiction #hercule

Despite their authoritarian light show, those ice-cream trucks of death couldn't do any more for Perkus's murdered infatuation, his crushed crush, than could keening Greek chorus, or a moaning witch doctor. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#death

I don't fear death--I fear dying before I've read Dickens end to end. ↗

— Amy Smith

#literature #reading #death

Do you feel no compunction, Socrates, at having followed a line of action which puts you in danger of the death penalty?' I might fairly reply to him, 'You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action--that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one. ↗

— Socrates

#right-and-wrong-in-philosophy #death

He had seen so much of life, but even more of death. He had seen countless eras come and go and still he braved forward, forever alone. And here she was ready to give up after a few lousy years. She was a coward. ↗

— Michelle M. Pillow

#eternity #life #vampire #vampire-romance #death