#death

- Kako se ono zovete? SMRT. (...) - Ne mogu tvrditi da sam čuo za tu tvrtku - rekao je Lezek. - A gdje vam je sjedište? OD NAJVEĆIH MORSKIH DUBINA, DO VISINA U KOJE SE SAMO ORAO MOŽE UZDIĆI, rekla je Smrt. - To je zbilja široko područje rada... ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#death

You leave behind your fine poems. You leave behind your beautiful flowers. And the earth that was only leant to you. You ascend into the Light, O Quechomitl, you leave behind the flowers and the singing and the earth. Safe journey, O friend. ↗

— Aliette de Bodard

#death #poems #beauty

The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep. ↗

— Guy Debord

#death

How stark everything became, at the end, all the wishes for one's children distilled by the world's swift cruelty into the desperate hope that death would take them fast. ↗

— Justin Cronin

#literary #poetic #death

There are moments too where the mighty death feels itself desperate! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#death

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day. ↗

— Frank Beddor

#daughter #death #father #loss #memories

I do not intend to tip-toe through life, but to arrive safely at death. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#death

Nine out of ten humans killed? And you're not bothered." A look of mysterious thoughtfulness crossed his face. "A virus can be useful to a species by thinning it out," he said. A scream cut the air. It sounded nonhuman. He took his eyes off the water and looked around. "Hear that pheasant? That's what I like about the Bighorn River," he said. "Do you find viruses beautiful?" "Oh, yeah," he said softly. "Isn't it true that if you stare into the eyes of a cobra, the fear has another side to it? The fear is lessened as you begin to see the essence of the beauty. Looking at Ebola under an electron microscope is like looking at a gorgeously wrought ice castle. The thing is so cold. So totally pure." He laid a perfect cast on the water, and eddies took the fly down. (92) ↗

— Richard Preston

#beauty

Red Leader to Red One. Come in Red One! ↗

— Margaret Weis

#zifnab #dating

For a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death – the greatest leisure of all. ↗

— Ann Lamott

#death #leisure #work #death