#death

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid. ↗

— Langston Hughes

#life #music #death

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island. ↗

— Yann Martel

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Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?" "Always," said Snape. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#life #love #snape #death

I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!" "You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death #dumbledore #harry-potter #hurt #life

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

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You see, cuckoos are parasites. They lay their eggs in other birds' nests. When the egg hatches, the baby cuckoo pushes the other baby birds out of the nest. The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places." "Enormous?" said Jace. "Did you just call me fat?" "It was an analogy." "I am not fat. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live. ↗

— Natalie Babbitt

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Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

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I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#death #time #death

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

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