#eat

You want these back, don't you? You want me out of here so you can come back and take over where you left off. I don't blame you. It's your body and your brain-and your life, even though you weren't able to make much use of it. I don't have the right to take it away from you. Nobody does. Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?... ↗

— Daniel Keyes

#flowers-for-algernon #death

A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#doctors #health #death

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly." Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from 'Songs of Muad'Dib ↗

— Frank Herbert

#song #death

Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself and death is his last crown ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#gambling #rousseau #death

Death, he had come to believe, was a corrosive thing, and the more he was around it , the more it gnawed away at who he was. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#death

If the inevitably of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that's what everyone else does. ↗

— John Green

#death

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over ↗

— V.S. Naipaul

#death

One of my predecessors used to have people torn to death by wild tortoises. It was not a quick death. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#death

The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#cause-and-effect #generations #death

I understood that Death wasn’t the one to be feared. War was the one that laid waste to lives. Death was just the cleanup guy, the janitor, the final act. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#death