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He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything. ↗

— Jack London

#death

...He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#haunting #literature #death

We trouble our life by thoughts about death, and our death by thoughts about life. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#death

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#death

If you can't imagine it, think clumsy silence. Think bits and pieces of floating despair. And drowning in a train. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#death

On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#death #death-of-a-friend #death-of-a-loved-one #life-and-death #death

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death. ↗

— John Piper

#amusement #entertainment #excess #death

On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#fleeting-life #death

What time is it in New York?" He shook his head. "An hour later than it is here. The earth simply has to revolve, Eve, however annoying it is for you." "It can revolve all it wants. I just don't see why people can't settle on the same time. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#humor #roarke #death

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#death