#death

Everything- even me, and one day even Charlotte- must come to end. ↗

— Avery Williams

#death

So tonight to shush you how about if I say I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#death

- had a million things to do today; death would have to wait, - (The Tin Star) ↗

— J.L. Langley

#death

They tax when you earn a dollar, they tax you when you save it, they tax you when you invest it. If you earn a dividend, they tax it again, and if you're stupid enough to die, they steal up to half. ↗

— Grover Norquist president of Americans for Tax Reform

#government #reform #taxes #death

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#child #death #job #death

Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#death #grief #death

Now when I die, I shall only be dead. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#death

They can send death at once, but life is slower... ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#philosophical #sci-fi #death

Stupid, fragile mortals. ↗

— Carrie Vaughn

#death

What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#mental-health #death