#death

Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself. ↗

— Tana French

#death

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. ↗

— Charles Bower

#ideas #innovation #death

He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is leaving a nasty stain! ↗

— Tim Burton

#death

I'm not afraid of being dead. I'm just afraid of what you might have to go through to get there. ↗

— Pamela Bone

#death #euthanasia #right-to-die #death

I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. ↗

— Jessica Dovey

#social-justice #death

Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#humor #death

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#slammed #death

I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion. ↗

— Holly Black

#death

She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#furious #death

The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. ↗

— Yann Martel

#love #beauty