#de

Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#slammed #death

I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as they drown, the way their fingers dig into your skin. Their eyes are wide and startled and they trash in your hands as though with an excess of passion. ↗

— Holly Black

#death

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#grief #grieving #loss #stillbirth #death

Beastly of him to die before you realized he might be fascinating. ↗

— Tasha Alexander

#fascinating #death

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death. ↗

— Ingrid Betancourt

#gifts #death

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#goals #rushing #death

Were they ready? Did the sun rise in the east and set in the fucking west? ↗

— L.A. Banks

#l-a-banks #death

I want to look at you as you kill me. ↗

— Curtis Jobling

#death #strength #courage

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fools #nuisance #death

We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#living #death