#rut

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#death

Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

#lies #truth #youth #death

Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#good #life #philosophy #truth #life

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie. ↗

— Richard Wright

#lie #truth #death

There it was again: Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#dark #death #favourite-quote #truth #death

Dance with me, Death, I am ready. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#death #stone-of-tears #sword-of-truth #terry-goodkind #death

I got to show off in front of my husband, who married me as I was stepping out of the business, so he had no idea that I could strut my stuff on the stage. ↗

— Kim Wilde

#could #front #got #had #husband

Rekao je: Nisu za griješnicima plakali ni nebo ni zemlja. A ja sam mislio: teško čovjeku ako su mu mjera nebo i zemlja. ↗

— Meša Selimović

#derviš-i-smrt #justice #meša-selimović #truth #death

The penalty for summoning the dead back to earth is death; if the summoned spirit does not kill its summoner, be assured the Church will. ↗

— Stacia Kane

#death