#th

That kind of imagination is why we're not dead. ↗

— Rebecca McKinsey

#fantasy #imagination #life #survival #death

Did he die badly?" "Well..." "-Hey, so did my father! Our water was undrinkable for weeks. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #wells #death

Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza. "Yes," he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival." "So... your religion dies with you. How sad," Dorolow said, looking back from Horza to the screen. The Changer let the remark pass. ↗

— Iain Banks

#changer #death #dorolow #mess-room #religion

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper. ↗

— Robert Alton Harris

#life #death

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#future #mourning #death

The necropolis has never seemed a city of death to me; I know its purple roses (which other people think so hideous) shelter hundreds of small animals and birds. The executions I have seen performed and have performed myself so often are no more than a trade, a butchery of human beings who are for the most part less innocent and less valuable than cattle. When I think of my own death, or the death of someone who has been kind to me, or even of the death of the sun, the image that comes to my mind is that of the nenuphar, with its glossy, pale leaves and azure flower. Under flower and leaves are black roots as fine and strong as hair, reaching down into the dark waters. ↗

— Gene Wolfe

#death

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing. ↗

— Jan Hammer

#any #anything #business #get #i

When we abandon all to Him, He takes a tender care of us, and His Providence for us is great or small according to the measure of our abandonment. ↗

— St. Francis de Sales

#god #faith

A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe. ↗

— Kirk Hammett

#call #characters #collectors #fans #geeky

I am a general. My soldiers are the keys and I have to command them. ↗

— Vladimir Horowitz

#command #general #i #i am #keys