#death

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life. ↗

— Mario Benedetti

#life #wisdom #death

Fred and George turned to each other and said together, “Wow — we’re identical! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humour #death

You ask 'Are you a man or a demon?' Neither, I say. I have woken up, and the rest of you are sleeping, and that is the only difference between us. ↗

— Aravind Adiga

#family #morality #death

No matter how much he talked, she never answered him, but he knew she was still there. He knew it was like the soldiers he had read about. They would have an arm or a leg blown off, and for days, even weeks after it happened, they could still feel the arm itching, the leg itching, the mother calling. ↗

— Pat Cunningham Devoto

#death #loss #missing #mother #sadness

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. ↗

— Anonymous

#death

It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next to the train line, footprints were sunken to their shins. Trees wore blankets of ice. As you may expect, someone has died. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#death #white #world #death

The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#light #night #poetry #stars #death

One day I’ll have my appointment with death, and every day I call out to God to see if I can reschedule for a later date.
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— Jarod Kintz

#god #dating

It's only water," she said. "Tell that to a drowning man," Giddon said. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#drown #water #death

It's matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. ↗

— Mello Death Note

#life-and-death #life-lessons #death