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The bombs were coming-and so was I. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#death

A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#death

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore! ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#heartbreak #memory #nepenthe #death

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#grief #hurt #injury #love #suffering

I will give you more pain than you can imagine. Your brains will leak out of your ears, and your bowels out of your ass. I will cause that to happen without leaving a mark, and every cop here will swear you died of natural causes. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#death

We're always one breath away from something, living or dying, sometimes it just can't be helped. ↗

— Heather Gudenkauf

#death #life #life-and-death #death

Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#inspirational #prophecy #death

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#desire #indifference #life #death

...all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#loss #death

He was Death, and he'd ridden in on a pale horse... ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#death