#eat

Whilst the wolflets bayed, A grave was made, And then with the strokes of a silver spade, It was filled to make a mound. And for two cold days and three long nights, The father tended that holy plot; And stayed by where his wife was laid, In the grave within the ground. ↗

— Roman Payne

#burial #death #father-and-wife #grave #payne

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#death

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#death-and-dying #death

You're still alive. That means you're winning. ↗

— Rachel Cotterill

#life-and-death #death

The tent in which she first met him had smelled of blood, of the death she did not understand, and still she had thought of it all as a game. She had promised him the world. His flesh in the flesh of his enemies. And much too late had she realized what he had sown in her. Love. Worst of all poisons. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#death

Fine, she wouldn't mind if Kaltain and Perrington met horrible deaths, but Dorian would be there. And Chaol. ↗

— Sarah J. Maas

#death

My mom and dad died, but in their place I got a house of fog that’s easy to hide my feelings in. (No smoking, please.)
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— Jarod Kintz

#death #emotions #family #feelings #fog

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty. ↗

— Rufus Wainwright

#death #looks #people #swan #beauty

Everything- even me, and one day even Charlotte- must come to end. ↗

— Avery Williams

#death

So tonight to shush you how about if I say I have administrative bones to pick with God, Boo. I'll say God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I'm not crazy about. I'm pretty much anti-death. God looks by all accounts to be pro-death. I'm not seeing how we can get together on this issue, he and I, Boo. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#death