#t

She collapsed at the bottom of the trail, at the edge of the ghost town. Dekka sat on Edilio and pressed down on the wound. The force of the blood was weaker now. She could almost hold the blood back now, not a good thing, no, because it meant he was almost finished, his brave heart almost done beating. Dekka looked up straight into the glittering eyes of a coyote. She could sense the others around her, closing in. Wary but sensing that a fresh meal was close at hand. ↗

— Michael Grant

#gone-series #death

I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#death #funny-but-sad #goals #humor #life

Look at the stupid, poor people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people. Look at the stupid, poor, burned-out people, look at their dead baby. It's death porn for the masses. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#humor #death

Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner. ↗

— Hans Bender

#because #cannot #create #dimensions #fashion

I'd heard that if you saw a Reaper, you saw what you expected to see, what you thought the agents of Death would look like. Personally, I wanted to see little, fuzzy pink bunnies, but apparently my subconscious visualized tall, scary, and skeletal. My subconscious and I needed to have a long talk. ↗

— Lisa Shearin

#humor #subconscious #death

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers. ↗

— George Santayana

#philosophy #death

She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place. It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying; for death looked lovely in her face. ↗

— Francesco Petrarca

#petrarch #plague #death

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing? ↗

— Mira Grant

#life #moral #right #value #wall

Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#antichristian #faith #god #religion-christianity #faith

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences. ↗

— Albert Bandura

#arrive #consequences #coping #could #demands