#hum

Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that? ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#science #stupid-design #design

I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#science-fiction #death

I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said. I KNOW. “I tried to live a good life. Does that help?” THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE,... SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION... YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#death #discworld #humor #reincarnation #death

Apparently they died from overfeeding. Apparently I overfed them. Apparently fish are terrible glutons with absolutely no self-control who just don't know when they've had enough and will stuff themselves to death with those innocuous little beige flakes imaginatively labeled 'fish food. ↗

— Steve Toltz

#fish-food #glutons #humor #death

This showed once again that everyone had something different to lose in this battle. Some were concerned for their lives, and some for those they cared most about: rays, sea horses, even the chickens that ran free in the streets of the city because they couldn't all be caught in time. ↗

— Kai Meyer

#humor #seriousness #death

. . . things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#human #love #memory #perish #remember

A job is like a politician struggling in the water. Be sure you hold it down.
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— Jarod Kintz

#drown #drowning #economy #funny #humor

Death. I’ve taunted it for years with confidence and courage. It has taken years for me to realize that it wasn’t courage at all, it was the complete opposite; weakness. Bad habits and vulgar sensibilities are my disease. The only cure is dignity and shame, how tragic that I seem lack both. ↗

— J.C. Wickhart

#humor #courage

Yes. Because every family needs a laser for thier family jet. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#family

To see an almost certain horrible death--you know how crowds all sit at the edge of their seats, /praying/ subconsciously for a spectacular accident--and then to be whisked away from it so suddenly--brought to the edge of tragedy, and then to have their better natures win out, showing them how much nicer they always /knew/ they were--that was the supreme thrill. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#human-nature #death