Life and Death
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you a crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
~ A bumper sticker I bought at a Renaissance Festival
…Subconsciously, his fellow passengers had made a perfectly understandable decision.
You leave as many empty seats as possible between yourself and Death.
~ Terry Brooks, Running with the Demon
Cause now I’ve got to be the one to take that tightrope walk,
And now I’ve got to be the one who’ll make the gossips talk,
And it’s my job to be the one who always takes the chance,
But if I have to cross thin ice, I’ll cross it in a dance!”
~ Mercedes Lackey, Philosophy
“Live strongly and passionately and violently.”
~ Dorothy, Gundam Wing, ep. 31
“Life is short and hard. Like a body-building elf.”
~ I don’t honestly know where I heard this one, but it’ been stuck in my head for a while.
“We have to get out of here before those things kill Guy!”
~ Galaxy Quest
“Hi, I’m a dead person.”
“I died four times.”
“Hm. Okay, you win.”
~ Me as Nuriko (from Fushigi Yuugi) talking a to guy dressed as Trunks (from Dragon Ball Z) at Katsucon 2000
“Tulio, did you ever think it would end like this?”
“The horse is a surprise.”
~ Miguel and Tulio, The Road to El Dorado
“We may have years
We may have hours
But sooner or later, we push up flowers.”
~ Mortician from Grim Fandango, a computer game by Lucas Arts
“Just what is life? Life is a lot like a hot bath: it feels good while you’re in it, but the longer you stay…the more wrinkled you get.”
~ Garfield the Cat, Garfield Sits Around
“We have a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it’s dark outside and we’re wearing sunglasses.”
“Let’s go.”
~ The Blues Brothers
This
is the way the world ends
This
is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
~ “The Hollow Men”
“Listen, you have to learn to laugh at life.”
“I try to. But it comes out as a hysterical, high-pitched kind of giggle.”
~ Shoe by Jeff MacNelly
“Why are you dressed like that?”
“Like what?”
“Like you’re going to a funeral. Why are you dressed like somebody died?”
“Wait.”
~ Amanda Buckman and Wednesday, Addams Family Values
“You have enslaved him. You have placed Fester under some strange, sexual spell. I respect that.”
~ Morticia, Addams Family Values
“I’ve waited almost two hundred years for this.”
“Do the words compulsive-obsessive mean anything to you?”
~ Morgan Walker and Methos, Highlander: the Series
“Don't worry, Methos,” he said, as he handed the beer over. “We all have days that start out good and end up in a sudden fit of cross-dressing.”
~ Duncan MacLeod to Methos, “Love Thing” (a fanfic) by: Mona Ramsey
Two things have traditionally puzzled vampire researchers. One is: why do vampires have so much power? Vampires’re so easy to kill, they point out. There are dozen of ways to dispatch them, quite apart from the stake through the heart, which also works on normal people, so if you have any stakes left over you don’t have to waste them.
~ Carpe Jugulum by: Terry Prachett
The Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time and time.
~ Edward Tyron
“Holy
Mother of Jesus… A funeral without a drink?!”
~ Mickey, Stones in his
Pockets
“Tarry, my cousin Suffolk!
Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast,
As in this glorious and well-foughten field
We kept together in our chivalry!”
~ Exeter relating the deaths of the Duke of York and the Earl of Suffolk, Henry V
Life’s like a movie, write your own ending
Keep believing, keep pretending
We’ve done just what we’ve set out to do!
Thanks to the lovers,
The dreamers,
And you!
~ The Muppets, The Muppet Movie
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah! my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!
~ Edna St. Vincent Midlay (ß I’m fairly certain I’m spelling that wrong…)
“Life is not a video game.”
“You mean… you don’t get points when you run over pedestrians?”
~ Me and my brother
“…to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
~ Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by: J. K. Rowling
There are moments in time that are meant to be held
Like fragile, breakable things.
There are others that pass, and you can’t even tell
Such are their grace and their speed.
~ “Alone But Not Lonely,” Mary Chapin Carpenter
“You know, the Stone was not such a wonderful thing. As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all—the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
~ Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by: J. K. Rowling
“Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot. He was not afraid to die, O brave Sir Robin. He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways. Brave brave brave brave Sir Robin. He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp. Or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken. To have his kneecaps split and his body burned away, and his limbs all hacked and mangled, Brave Sir Robin. His head smashed in and his heart cut out, and his liver removed and his bowels unplugged and his nostrils raped and his bottom burned up and his be—”
“That’s! That’s uh…that’s enough music for now, lads. Heh.”
~ Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail
…I’ve decided on cremation: the ease of not
taking up room, being thrown in with
the cat litter or swept against the base-
boards. Nothing left of me but a gray
fuzz, an indented bed, fingerprints on the
sliding glass door. Like a guitar string when
broken, still quivering, still making noise.
~ “Still Life” by: Adam Clay
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