#death

The price for using dark magic is death, so that goes a long way toward deterring users. ↗

— Devon Monk

#death

If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#afterworld #death #death

[Like they say,] small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it. ↗

— Dave Courtney

#death

If I were facing a firing squad, I’d ask them to hold on just one second, because I have a wedgie and it is very uncomfortable. Let me adjust myself, and then you can shoot me. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#change

Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#death

There was a saying in our family that no one ever died; people just dried up, were hung on a hook, and conducted their affairs from there. ↗

— Mildred Armstrong Kalish

#family #death

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation. ↗

— John Logan

#death #life #art

He that has an ear let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches: he who overcomes will not be hurt of the second death. -Revelation 2:11 ↗

— Anonymous

#death

They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray parchment, and were so much alike that the bodies of the Europeans, Egyptians, and negroes could not be distinguished from each other. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#humanity #war #death

Eran gentes de vidas lentas, a las cuales no se les veía volverse viejas, ni enfermarse ni morir, sino que iban desvaneciéndose poco a poco en su tiempo, volviéndose recuerdos, brumas de otra época, hasta que los asimilaba el olvido. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#memory #death