#eat

Oh, this faithless world! Someone must deliver them. You. If not you, who? You have been saved for a reason. Show them the old demons. Remind them of their fear. Apathy is death. Without darkness, there is no light. Without evil, there is no good. Make them choose. Dark or light. Where is the fear? Where are the heroes? If not now, when? ↗

— Dan Brown

#death

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#loss #death

WHAT FOR IS THIS BOX PADDED? IS IT TO BE SAT ON? CAN IT BE THAT IT IS CAT-FLAVOURED? ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#chocolate-box #death #death

There's no justice. There's just me. ↗

— Terry Pratchett Death

#justice #terry-pratchett #death

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X") ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#death #murder #death

God has chosen to save the world through the cross, through the shameful and powerless death of the crucified Messiah. If that shocking event is the revelation of the deepest truth about the character of God, then our whole way of seeing the world is turned upside down… all values are transformed… God refuses to play games of power and prestige on human terms. ↗

— Richard Hays

#god #power #suffering #weakness #death

Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset? ↗

— Daniele Varè

#color #death #funeral #death

Bod shrugged. "So?" he said. "It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#green #mamaba #death

As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death