#death

I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty. ↗

— Nancy Reagan

#death #dumb #death

Anyone else asks how I’m doing I’ll say okay, and that wil be bullshit. It’s true, but it’ll stil be bullshit. ↗

— Eileen Wilks

#eileen-wilks #death

What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for internal, external and eternal – peace. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#consequences #direction #eternal-peace #external-peace #internal-peace

Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies had finished scouring for gaps in the door, their souls rose up. When their fingernails had scratched at the wood and in some cases were nailed into it by the sheer force of desperation, their spirits came toward me, into my arms, and we climbed out of those shower facilities, onto the roof and up, into eternity's certain breadth. They just kept feeding me. Minute after minute. Shower after shower. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#holocaust #jews #shower #death

I love you. They can't take it away. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#death

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent protection. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #death

A pity it was so early in the day and I couldn't treat myself to the roller coaster. we'll have to come back, you and I, and make up for it." "Sure, when I've lost my mind and want to rush screaming through the air in a little car. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#death

Fear is a bird that refuses to fly, and each time she neglects to use her wings, she consents to the slow death of her destiny. ↗

— Nadia Janice Brown

#inspirational #death

It was then that I realized I wasn't afraid to lose my life; I was afraid to lose the life I could've lived. ↗

— Amanda Nuri

#life #life-and-death #second-chances #death

What is this power the dead have over the ones they leave behind? It's strange and beautiful and frightening, this deathless love that human being continue to feel for the ones they've lost. ~The Lost Girl~ ↗

— Sangu Mandanna

#beauty