#death

Fear is a bird that refuses to fly, and each time she neglects to use her wings, she consents to the slow death of her destiny. ↗

— Nadia Janice Brown

#inspirational #death

It was then that I realized I wasn't afraid to lose my life; I was afraid to lose the life I could've lived. ↗

— Amanda Nuri

#life #life-and-death #second-chances #death

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time. ↗

— Mario Puzo

#passion #death

1. Write like you’ll live forever — fear is a bad editor. 2. Write like you’ll croak today — death is the best editor. 3. Fooling others is fun. Fooling yourself is a lethal mistake. 4. Pick one — fame or delight. 5. The archer knows the target. The poet knows the wastebasket. 6. Cunning and excess are your friends. 7. TV and liquor are your enemies. 8. Everything eternal happens in a spare room at 3 a.m. 9. You’re done when the crows sing. ↗

— Ron Dakron

#dakron #on-writing #ron-dakron #rules #writers

A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#death

Voldemort’s fury at the fall of his last, best lieutenant exploded with the force of a bomb. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#voldemort #death

Someday all the wilds will be razed, and we will be left with a concrete landscape, a land of pretty houses and trim gardens and planned parks and forests, and a world that works as smoothly as a clock, neatly wound: a world of metal and gears, and people going tick-tick-tick to their deaths. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#future #death

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#happiness #pip #death

And you know," Jeanne said, looking down at Sylvia with her hands on her hips, "that's how I want to go. Taking my own way out... and totally pissing everybody off at the end. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#death

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal). ↗

— John Connolly

#death