#th

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. ↗

— William Faulkner

#life #death

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more… ↗

— Mary Stewart

#fate #merlin #mordred #death

The brain can be a dangerous thing. Even more so if you haven't got one. ↗

— Dave Courtney

#humour #smiling #death

Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#death-and-dying #humor #humorous #humorous-quotations #internet

At last the cold crept up my spine; at last it filled me from foot to head; at last I grew so chill and desolate that all thought and pain and awareness came to a standstill. I wasn't miserable anymore: I wasn't anything at all. I was a nothing-- a random configuration of molecules. If my heart still beat I didn't know it. I was aware of one thing only; next to the gaping fact called Death, all I knew was nothing, all I did meant nothing, all I felt conveyed nothing. This was no passing thought. It was a gnawing, palpable emptiness more real than the cold. ↗

— David James Duncan

#realization #death

Death was just the beginning of a journey that everyone took at some point. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#melissa-de-la-cruz #witches-of-east-end #death

It smelled pretty rank, but I was getting used to the smell of death, as much as anyone could get used to it. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#death

Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#arguing #death #god #death

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#first-sentence #death

Hogwarts is threatened!” shouted Professor McGonagall. “Man the boundaries, protect us, do your duty to our school! ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#professor-mcgonagall #death