#dead

I don’t glorify the dead. If I didn’t care if they were still alive, why do I even bother when they are dead. If I love a person when they are still alive, they will remain in my mind and in my heart when they die. ↗

— Ann Marie Aguilar

#love

A hero is not measured by the lives that he has saved. A hero is measured by the number of the dead that he did not join. ↗

— Robert J.A. Gilbert

#dead #fantasy #hero #noah #men

If this was The Lord of the Rings and I had a smart British voice like Cate Blanchett, I could tell you the background of the events of that fall in a really suspenseful way. And you’d be straining to hear the rest. ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#mentions-to-movies #sookie-stackhouse #movies

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#boring #bunch #dates #deadlines #decorate

It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#death #dying #humor #shooting #death

It had been a long night already, and now here I was, locked in another fight to the death. Sometimes it just didn't pay to leave the house. ↗

— Jennifer Estep

#elemental-assassin #gin-blanco #death

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. ↗

— Groucho Marx

#be happy #choose #day #dead #events

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#death #life #science #death

When you read, don't just consider what the author thinks, consider what you think ↗

— Tom Schulman

#john-keating #tom-schulman #authority

A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#dead