#death

Death was like love, a romantic escape. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#escape #like #love #romantic

Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I will hold them enough to ensure your escape no more." Quick Ben sank down past the roof. Before he passed from sight Pearl spoke again. "Ben Adaephon Delat, do you pity me?" "Yes" he replied softly, then pivoted and dropped down into darkness. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#malazan #of-the-moon #steven-erikson #death

I wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don't know what happens next, afterward. ↗

— Albert Borris

#suicide #death

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight. ↗

— John Green

#fighting #death

Being fed, and having a soft bed, and other people being in charge, seemed the most wonderful prospect in the world at that moment. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#funny #death

الدرس الذى تعلمته -بعد سنوات طويلة- هو أن أفترض فى كل مأزق أننى سأخرج منه سالماً من ثم أحتفظ بوضوح وترتيب فكرى، إن الهلع لا يجدى .. والموت هو ميعاد مكتوب لن يغيره حذرى ولا رعبى، فإذا جاء .. فلأمت كرجل مبتسماً واثقاً. ↗

— أحمد خالد توفيق

#fear #death

Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you're willing to wear that mark before you take the blood. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#death

This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright. ↗

— George Orwell

#death

Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. ↗

— Avis Corea

#death

Storms rumble beyond the horizon, and the fires of heaven purge the earth. There is no salvation without destruction, no hope this side of death. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#death