#death

He never knew what hit him, and that would have comforted me, except . . . just for one second, he would have had to know, wouldn't he? There must have been a blur, a sense of the world exploding, a flashpoint of receiving more damage than a human body could endure. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#death

We sit in silence awhile then I blurt out the thing that's on both our minds. "How are we going to kill these people, Peeta? ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#kill #death

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living? ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#business

And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved; for the god was in the one but not in the other - perhaps the tenderest, most mocking thought that ever was thought, and source of all the guile and secret bliss the lover knows. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#guile #love #subtle #death

You may come as a proud prince today young Habsburg. But you shall travel many more roads in Castile in death than you ever will in life ↗

— C.W. Gortner

#the-last-queen #death

The day she was born,her grandfather made her a ring of silver and a polished stone, because he loved her already. ↗

— Aliki

#death #grandparent #grief #love #death

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#religion #death

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#death #death

I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator. ↗

— Hilary Swank

#motivation #death

I will miss it so,” she said beside him. “This hell of a place, I will miss it so much. This fat body, walking mud puddle, deceived by everything, this impossible, ruinous accident of a world, these people who would truly rather hurt one another than eat—oh, there is nothing, nothing, nothing I would not do to stay here ten minutes longer. Oh, I will leave claw marks, I will drag mountains and forests away under my fingernails when I am dragged off. Such a stupid way to feel. I will be all dirty from clutching at this stupid planet, and the gods will laugh at me. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#death