#dead

the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#death #home #the-dead #death

How came she by her death? How came she there? Was she slain by accident, or had she met with violence? were the questions that pressed upon our thoughts. But we said little then and after a time left her where we found her. It mattered not to her that the bed was hard or the air cold. ("A Night In An Old Castle") ↗

— George Payne Rainsford James

#dead #death #murder #death

Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose, its mouth like a gaping maw; its eyes, two giant wormholes, twisting and bending with some apparitional substance that could have been space and time if I’d known anything about physics. ↗

— Shannon Celebi

#apparitional #dead #death #death-and-dying #eye

I’ll kill you with kindness. And if that doesn’t work, I’ll kill you with something deadlier, like a karate chop.
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— Jarod Kintz

#death #funny #humor #karate #kill

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#carpe-diem #dead #death #dream #dying

The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them. ↗

— Robert Galbraith

#death #death

Take it from an old cadaver. Let go of the past. ↗

— David S.E. Zapanta

#cadaver #death #life #undead #zombies

Life is but a dream for the dead. ↗

— Gerard Way

#emo #life #life-and-death #mcr #music

Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb scream in silence everyone's sleeping ↗

— Chester Bennington

#walking-in-circles #dreams

I'm not just a man with these broken dreams, even I can go to heaven if I'm part deceased" ~ Johnny 3 Tears ("Pour Me" by Hollywood Undead) ↗

— Hollywood Undead

#me #pour #sad #dreams