#death

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death. ↗

— George Orwell

#censorship #science-fiction #death

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#death #heroic #life #death

If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#death #grave #habits #issues #problems

Death is softer by far than tyranny. ↗

— Aeschylus

#far #softer #than #tyranny

Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death. ↗

— Stephen Ambrose

#freed #his #jefferson #slaves #upon

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell. ↗

— William Lloyd Garrison

#between #compact #covenant #death #exists

It's different when the person you love dies. There's an awful finality to death. But it is final. The end. And there's the funeral, family gatherings, grieving, all of those necessary rituals. And they help, believe me. When the object of your love just disappears, there's no way to deal with the grief and pain. ↗

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

#finality #grief #love #pain #death

If there was one thing I feared as I was growing up . . . No, that's stupid. I feared hundreds of things: the dark, the death of my father, the possibility that I might rejoice the death of my mother, sums involving vernier calipers, groups of schoolboys with nothing much to do, death by drowning. But of all these, I feared the most the possibility that I might go mad too. ↗

— Jerry Pinto

#madness #death

But why is it that within me "I don't want to" and "I want to" stand side by side? That is the chief horror of the matter; I continue to long for that happy death of yesterday. The horror of it is that even now, when I have integrated the logical function, when it becomes evident that that function contains death hidden within it, still I long for it with my lips, my arms, my heart, with every millimeter....

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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