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The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#testing #truth #universe #life

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#cell #crisis #death #prison #revelation

You can’t live your life thinking death is going to come all the time. You have to live life and if it comes, then we can only hope we were able to do all the things we wanted. He has to want to do something. Everyone does. ↗

— Shelena Shorts

#life #romance #time #truth #death

WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN? The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said. Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#evil #knowledge #squeak #truth #death

Fuck you! I hope you die!" "Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you. ↗

— Lawrence Block

#pessimism #truth #death

We losers don't fear death. For us it's the end of a lifelong losing spell. ↗

— Dakota Dawn

#life #truth #wisdom #death

I am going to die, but that is of no importance. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#importance #important #life #truth #death

I dedicate this to all those who did not live to tell it. And may they please forgive me for not having seen it all nor remembered it all, for not having divined all of it - from The Gulag Archipelago ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#life #truth #writing #death

It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death #death-and-dying #etiquette #perspective #self-censorship

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else. ↗

— Stephen King

#death #truth #worry #death