#death

"You can't give her that!' she screamed. 'It's not safe!'IT'S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY'RE NOT MEANT TO BE SAFE.'She's a child!' shouted Crumley.IT'S EDUCATIONAL.'What if she cuts herself?'THAT WILL BE AN IMPORTANT LESSON."

"California Milk Processor Board: Got Milk?... ...cuz I got a fucking hangover."

"It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to quit all at once: music, laughter,the physics of falling leaves, automobiles, holding hands,the scent of rain, the concept of subway trains... if only one could leave this life slowly!"

"No-brainers [10w] No-brainers are challenging enough for people with no fucking brains."

"Frivolous Gossip and Poetry It's just so much frivolous gossip to dwell upon the moral merits of a poet;what should only concern the reader is the merit of his words.Leave moral judgments to the preachers and aesthetic judgments to the critical readers."

"Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love."

"I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam."

"Enigmatic Real Estate I choose to live on the edge of mysterywith its inscrutable view of complexityhedged by perplexity.Also, there's a Walmart nearby."

"Athens, Texas Haiku Blackeyed Pea Capital of the World.Yup, just another shithole."

"I cannot tell you what it is that guides us in this life; but for me, I fell toward the Chairman just as a stone must fall toward the earth. When I cut my lip and met Mr. Tanaka, when my mother died and I was cruelly sold, it was all like a stream that falls over rocky cliffs before it can reach the ocean. Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories."

"Regret [10w] Regret's more about lost opportunities than about paths we've chosen."

"California [10w] No two snowflakes are alike,unless they're California yoga practitioners."

"Leap of Faith [10w] Seeing God withinis where the leap of faith lands."

"And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief;"

"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"

"The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die."

"I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more..."

"What Might Have Been {Couplet} Dwell not upon what might have been,Within such idle spin, you can never win."

"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."

"Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth."