#death

Death is just the last scene of the last act. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#death #death

I have the death sentence in seven genres. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#death

To hell with Kira. What matters to me is L. L ↗

— NisiOisiN

#death-note #l #la-bb #mello #death

I watched my life as if it were happening to someone else. My son died. And I was hurt, but I watched my hurt, and even relished it, a little, for now I could write a real death, a true loss. My heart was broken by my dark lady, and I wept, in my room, alone; but while I wept, somewhere inside I smiled. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#writing #death

The difference between Socrates and Jesus is that no one had ever been put to death in Socrates' name. And that is because Socrates' ideas were never made law. Law, in whatever name, protects privilege. ↗

— E.L. Doctorow

#separation-of-church-and-state #socialism #socrates #death

Oh, the torment bred in the race, the grinding scream of death and the stroke that hits the vein, the hemorrhage none can staunch, the grief, the curse no man can bear. But there is a cure in the house, and not outside it, no, not from others but from them, their bloody strife. We sing to you, dark gods beneath the earth. Now hear, you blissful powers underground -- answer the call, send help. Bless the children, give them triumph now. ↗

— Aeschylus

#invocation #death

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#death

Student: I don't feel like living anymore. Teacher: If you don't feel like doing something then don't do. This means that in finding many ways how not to live your life, you have the possibility to discover how to live your life. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

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

Only death will take me away from you, vampire girl," he whispered. "And even then, I'll watch over you from wherever I end up. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#zeke-crosse #death

The red washing down the bathtub can't change the color of the sea at all. ↗

— Derrick C. Brown

#depression #poem #poetry #suicide #change