Quotes / Snow Means Death

Anime and Manga

"Sure is chilly. I didn't realize it was so cold out here. (notices a snowflake) Hey... snow? Even at a time like this, it's still possible to feel lucky and glad. How 'bout that? Ushiro…"

—Kanji Yoshikawa shares his last thoughts, Bokurano

Fan Works

Her death is an obsession. This killer maiden who's seen hardened camorristi begging as she pushed in the bayonet, smelt the stench as they voided their bowels thinks her end will have dignity. Her blood will be red on the snow, his tears wet on her cheek, the foes she has slain piled in tribute before him.

— Bullets for My Love, a Gunslinger Girl fanfic

"My hand is shaking as I grasp a drooping flower. The lettering stares at me on the grave, and I know what it says: I've seen it. I don't want to believe it, but the words carved in stone can't lie to me. I pry my fingers one by one off the blossom, watching it fall from my hands onto the ground. Bright yellow petals glimmer on a white background—petals from another time, another Spring.
But it's Winter now. Spring is dead."

— Frostbitten Flower

Literature

"The clangor of the swords had died away, the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow."

— The opening sentence of Robert E. Howard's The Frost-Giant's Daughter, a Conan the Barbarian story

"Winter really hit us in early December. The snow was over our heads, literally, mountains of it, thick and gray from the pollution. The camp got silent. No more fights, no more shooting. By Christmas Day, there was plenty of food."

— Jesika Hendricks, World War Z

Live-Action TV

"And taking a look at the long range forecast: continued snow, darkness, and extreme cold. This is Howard Handupme. Goodnight... goodbye."

— Howard Handupme, Dinosaurs, "Changing Nature"

Music

I lie in the drifting snow
Bleeding out as it covers me up

— Lord Huron, "Fool for Love"

I won't be coming home
I won't be going anywhere
I will guard this post forever
Here on the alpine slope, where I did my final stand I shall remain
Among the ice and snow that binds me to this mountain

A force of nature too strong, sent from above
Where spirits lead the way, the winds will never fade

White Friday, I'll take the
Stairway to heaven
I'm sky high, when I die
I'll be immortal
Forever, I never
I won't rеturn to
Blood mountain, I am the
Soldier of heavеn

— Sabaton, "Soldier of Heaven"

Winter has come for me; 'can't carry on.
The chains to my life are strong but soon they'll be gone.

— Within Temptation, "The Swan Song"

Radio

"The snow red with blood, the air thick with carrion birds..."

—The Doctor (narrating), Big Finish Doctor Who "Auld Mortality"

Video Games

"Is there anything more sublime than that bold crimson on fresh-fallen snow?"

—Dr Stanislaus Braun, Fallout 3

"Adrian says we have to go far, out to the Carpathians. There is a hunting lodge in the mountains where we can stay. Old friends. We knew he was lying, a shark has no friends, but it was too late. So we came here. Then the snow came... then Adrian's "friends" did. They were hungry."

—Alina Florea, The Secret World

Miscellaneous

"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."

— Alfred Hitchcock

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