#eat

I will reign over a new world! ↗

— Tsugumi Ohba

#kira #light-yagami #death

You have to remember that there are reasons to live, and that at least a few people are decent, and that the world is worthwhile some of the time, okay?” I raise my face to his, wanting another kiss, but he stops me. “You will remember?” The balloon bumps downward again. His eyes are still closed. “Why don’t you open your eyes?” He opens one and squints at me for a second. “I’m terrified of heights,” he says. ↗

— Bethany Griffin

#will #death

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#death

Do you know what it’s like to kill a man? You just pushed a knife into living, moving skin and you realize you pierced a heart that beats against your sharp knife. -Lucas Tyrel ↗

— L'Poni Baldwin

#horror #military #death

So Now You're Death: Here's What You'll Need ↗

— Christopher Moore

#death

We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally— ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#poetry #death

Here is a small fact. You are going to die. ↗

— Mark Zusak

#death

For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad. ↗

— Christina Rossetti

#hope #death

I edit my own stories to death. They eventually run and hide from me. ↗

— Jeanne Voelker

#writing #death

Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#heathen #pagan #death