#death

Comedy and tragedy are so mixed up in life, Gilbert. The only thing that haunts me is that tale of the two who lived together fifty years and hated each other all that time. I can't believe they really did. Somebody has said that 'hate is only love that has missed its way.' I feel sure that under the hatred they really loved each other . . . just as I really loved you all those years I thought I hated you . . . and I think death would show it to them. I'm glad I found out in life. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#death

I will teach you to love death. I will empty you of grief and guilt and self-pity and fill you up with hate and cunning and the spirit of vengeance. I will make my final stand here, Benjamin Thomas Parish. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#rick-yancey #death

Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#ghosts #japanese-horror-movies #death

And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again... ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#family-relationships #death

... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever. ↗

— David Wong

#death

Most songs are somewhere between love and death, and mine are no exception. ↗

— Robyn Hitchcock

#death #exception #love #mine #most

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#always #artistic #artwork #ashtray #death

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#loss #lost-loved-one #spirit #death

Since I was a child, death is definitely something that I think about every day. But I think that everybody does. You try and avoid it, but it's such a big thing that you can't. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#avoid #big #big thing #child #day

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#actual #art #between #celebration #death