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To-day man is, and to-morrow he will be seen no more. And being removed out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind. O the dulness and hardness of man's heart, which thinketh only of the present, and looketh not forward to the future. Thou oughtest in every deed and thought so to order thyself, as if thou wert to die this day. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#death

I re-traced your footsteps to that miserable little Tibetan monastery. It was hard to get the monks to talk, what with that vow of silence and all – and how do you threaten someone who regards death as a promotion? ↗

— Anne Flanagan

#plays #scripts #death

That was very good of him. Remarked Prince Kaunitz, chancellor of state and minister of foreign affairs of the Holy Roman Empire, on being told of the death of Joseph II Holy Roman Emperor. ↗

— Wenzel Anton Prince Fürst von Kaunitz-Rietberg

#holy-roman-empire #joseph #prince #death

- Kako se ono zovete? SMRT. (...) - Ne mogu tvrditi da sam čuo za tu tvrtku - rekao je Lezek. - A gdje vam je sjedište? OD NAJVEĆIH MORSKIH DUBINA, DO VISINA U KOJE SE SAMO ORAO MOŽE UZDIĆI, rekla je Smrt. - To je zbilja široko područje rada... ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#death

You leave behind your fine poems. You leave behind your beautiful flowers. And the earth that was only leant to you. You ascend into the Light, O Quechomitl, you leave behind the flowers and the singing and the earth. Safe journey, O friend. ↗

— Aliette de Bodard

#death #poems #beauty

The spectacle is the nightmare of imprisoned modern society which ultimately expresses nothing more than its desire to sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of sleep. ↗

— Guy Debord

#death

How stark everything became, at the end, all the wishes for one's children distilled by the world's swift cruelty into the desperate hope that death would take them fast. ↗

— Justin Cronin

#literary #poetic #death

There are moments too where the mighty death feels itself desperate! To see the trees growing in solid rocks is one of these moments! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#death

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day. ↗

— Frank Beddor

#daughter #death #father #loss #memories

I do not intend to tip-toe through life, but to arrive safely at death. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#death