#death

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#death #doing #once #only #proven

Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living. ↗

— Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

#suicide #death

...or because he got eighteen years when he should have gotten more.' 'Seventeen,' Gus corrected. 'I'm assuming you've got some time, you interrupting bastard. ↗

— John Green

#friendship #humor #death

The serious writer was aware of a paradox at the heart of his art: his inner world, the place of the strongest stories, was infinite, but it was also embedded in – if this was possible! – an even more infinite universe of all things to write about. It was like seeing the Grand Canyon from outer space – a huge gorge that looked like a thin trickle, impossible to miss, hard to hit. ↗

— Marcus Speh

#humanity #short-story #writer #writing-life #art

Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#kin #religions #unwholly #world #death

I got him a cool gift. I got him a pack of razors, and a really furry dead cat.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cats #dead #death #funny #generosity

I'd rather be stung to death by a bunch of piss ants. ~Synola Harper, You're Busting My Nuptials ↗

— Ann Everett

#humor #mystery #romantic-comedy #death

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#away #before #death #decay #dies

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#death

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#satisfaction #death