#death

Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town. ↗

— John Green

#dying #life-and-living #show #death

They have me singing in a reformatory. My singing would be enough to get me in, but I'd never be able to sing my way out. ↗

— David Stenn

#jean-harlow #singing #death

Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good) ↗

— Nalini Singh

#angels-blood #blood #elena #guild #guild-hunter

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it. ↗

— Margaret Sanger

#babe #born #coerce #death #decide

Writing, painting, singing--it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in its tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps sound and look and feel beautiful, can make the space of waiting a place where you can linger without as much fear. For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey there between footsteps makes up our lives. ↗

— Ally Condie

#death-and-dying #literature #literature-writing #art

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. ↗

— Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

#life #paul-and-virginie #paul-et-virginie #pessimism #pessimistic

...one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#death

I knew Marilyn over a two-year period. I met her first on a movie called 'Let's Make Love.' I photographed her at that time on and off through the time of her death. I was 22 years old and she was 34 or 35. ↗

— Lawrence Schiller

#death #first #her #i #knew

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that. ↗

— Bill Shankly

#death #football #i #life #life and death

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#compromise #death #death penalty #despite #i