#eat

It was an indulgence, learning last words. Other people had chocolate; I had dying declarations. ↗

— John Green

#death #last-words #death

Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness ↗

— Mark Mirabello

#suicide #death

Why would I kill someone I don't know, when I know so many people who irritate me, and havent't killed any of them? ↗

— J.D. Robb

#death

God is dead and I am his replacement. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#god #death

Is that what death would feel like? The nicest, warmest, heaviest never-ending nap? If that’s what it’s like, I wouldn’t mind. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#death

X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!” XI. I saw their starved lips in the gloam, With horrid warning gaped wide, And I awoke and found me here, On the cold hill’s side. XII. And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake, And no birds sing. ↗

— John Keats

#death

Of course I want to kill you," said Skulduggery. "I want to kill most people. But then where would I be? In a field of dead people with no one to talk to. ↗

— Derek Landy

#death #dialogue #field #humour #nobody-to-talk-to

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? ↗

— John Fowles

#death

Comparison is the death of joy. ↗

— Mark Twain

#joy #death

And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star they won’t tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they’re old enough to bear it and when they learn they’ll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed ↗

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

#death