#death

It’s best not to experiment on yourself. Bacon practically froze himself to death in one of his experiments and died of pneumonia.” {Right! Bacon must be heated. Knew that already, but thanks for the reminder.} ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#death

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived. ↗

— John Fowles

#death

He saw the rules of life clearly for the first time and they were simple: it was a game where Death was the only winner. ↗

— Sharon Sant

#fantasy #science-fiction #young-adult #death

I understand, gentlemen,” John Kennedy said. “If you find that life it’s not easy, let me tell you, death is worse. ↗

— Pierre Marshesso

#thriller #death

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. ↗

— Horace

#death

The Ladies Buddenbrook from Breite Strasse did not weep, however - it was not their custom. Their faces, a little less caustic than usual at least, expressed a gentle satisfaction at death's impartiality. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#death

That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#sad-stories #stories #death

The ice cold fear I’d felt, not knowing if Wyatt was alive, pressed into the wall with other girls and surrounded by guys who were unspeakably brave, hit my body again in a wave. This was trauma—the gift that keeps on giving. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #gun-violence #love #meg-kavanagh

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. ↗

— Paul Kurtz

#contrary #creatively #death #discovered #eating

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#gratitude #death