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They can send death at once, but life is slower... ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#philosophical #sci-fi #death

Stupid, fragile mortals. ↗

— Carrie Vaughn

#death

What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#mental-health #death

Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source. ↗

— Osho

#death #fear #death

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#faith #linguistics #communication

Every inner touch, every one of its fingerprints on my brain, burned like acid. It shredded the walls of my soul like tissue paper, it clawed its way into my very center, I couldn’t tell anymore where it began and I ended. It poured into me like a river into the sea, mixing, melding, until we were one. One. For better or worse. Until death do us part. ↗

— Rob Thurman

#leandros #rob-thurman #death

You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#dresden-files #death

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#right #death

Death leaves cans of shaving cream half-used. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#half-used #shaving-cream #death

Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#death