#th

I took the thin magazine from the pouch in front of me and began to thumb through it. I felt self-conscious, as if I shouldn't be there. My mind began to wander, as I knew it would, back to the boonies. I was on patrol again. Monaco was on point. Peewee and Walowick followed him. Lobel and Brunner were next, then Johnson, the sixty cradled in his arm as if it were a child. We were walking the boonies, past rice paddies, toward yet another hill. I was in the rear, and for some reason I turned back. Behind me, trailing the platoon, were the others. Brew, Jenkins, Sergeant Dongan, Turner, and Lewis, the new guys, and Lieutenant Carroll. I knew I was mixing my prayers, but it didn't matter. I just wanted God to care for them, to keep them whole. I knew they were thinking about me and Peewee. ↗

— Walter Dean Myers

#fallen-angels #my-feels #soldiers #vietnam #war

転送すれば死なない ↗

— 秋元 康

#death #japanese #death

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive. ↗

— Mary Stewart

#writing #death

The ledge isn't even wide enough for my feet to fit on completely. I hang onto the rail tightly and do a Casper does...leaning out slowly over the water. Like this, there is no safety. No rail to catch me if I slip. I'm almost flying. Between me and death, there is...nothing. Nothing in the way but my own decision to hang on. ↗

— Kelley York

#suicide #death

And so I have to live. Because we live for more than just ourselves, Most of the time we live for others, keep putting one foot before the other, left and right, left and right, so that walking becomes a habit, just like breathing. Ina n out, left and right. ↗

— Thrity Umrigar

#death #life #live #suicide #death

I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#philosophy #death

One day, with the help of science, death will come to Death as well! Killer will be killed and we will shout: Soli Scientia Gloria! Glory to Science alone! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#death

I work, I want to do something, but I had forgotten it must all end; I had forgotten--death. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#death

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. ↗

— Harper Lee

#anyway #before #begin #know #licked

Jana looked beyond him and saw Mars. She ate Mars for breakfast with her eyes. ↗

— Randy Russell

#paranormal #romance #death