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...Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#obediance #death

He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#love #murder #death

Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#death #grief #grieving #loss #loss-of-love

Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home. ↗

— Charles Sheffield

#government #hell #humour #death

...death is not the total dissolution or our identity but the way to its fullest revelation. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#death

It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#loneliness #death

More Americans died in WWII than in any other world war, with the possible exception of WWI.
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— Jarod Kintz

#war #death

Let this curse find those who have stolen from us like the wolf finds his prey. May death come to you on swift wings, may your spoils turn into serpents and coil around your necks, may the rest of your days be stricken with unending sickness, may your children's bodies belong to the fire, may every last one of you anguish in eternal pain, crying aloud for mercy, while we turn our heads away with a smile and a deaf ear. In payment for your treachery, we will accept your thieving hands on our finest plates, your sullen heads on our tallest flag poles, and your worthless souls in our enveloping clutches. All the while we will watch your graveless corpses writhe with worms and turn into an eternal, restless dust. Always know, we shall forever be against you as a crocodile on the water, as a serpent on the earth, as a raven in the wind, and as an enemy in this world and worlds to come. ↗

— Josh Graham

#death

It would kill the past, and when that was dead, he would be free. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#death #freedom #death

We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring. ↗

— Clive Barker

#death