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To me it was plain silly. It is so obvious that life works in terms of species rather than individuals. The individual just has to be born, to develop to the point at which it can procreate, and then to fall away into death to make way for its successors, and humans are no exception whatever they may fancy. ↗

— Diana Athill

#life #social-science #death

Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind. ↗

— Rosie Thomas

#death

You never did master a leer." - Katharine Murray, Death on the Family Tree ↗

— Patricia Sprinkle

#leer #lust #death

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me. ↗

— Dennis Rodman

#death #had #i #i think #kill

[According to 1348 theorists, poisoning of Christian water by Jews was the cause of Black Death.] Even the poison used to contaminate the Christian water supply was described in meticulous detail. It was "about the size of an egg," except when it was the "size of a nut" or a "large nut," "a fist" or "two fists"- and it came packaged in "a leather pouch," except when it was packaged in "linen cloth," "a rag," or a "paper coronet"; and the poison was variously made from lizards, frogs, and spiders- when it was not made from the hearts of Christians and from Holy Communion wafers. ↗

— John Kelly

#plague #theory #death

[Le] jour qui vient de passer, tout débordant d'activité qu'il ait été, ne manque jamais, à la seconde ou enfin le sommeil va m'assommer, de me sembler suspect, dénué de toute valeur, de me faire trembler de peur. C'est toujours avec angoisse que j'anticipe le retour de la nuit, le moment de la grande rencontre avec moi-même, le moment d'ajouter un autre zéro au total du passé, le moment de me rapprocher de tout un pas de la frontière au-dela de laquelle il n'y a plus rien, même plus de futur. ↗

— Réjean Ducharme

#death

I suppose I wouldn’t desire having memorial services after I pass by… I think that it would have a precious little to do with my inworld immortality because I think I’ll have a precious little to do with the person to be remembered… Who can really tell? ↗

— Thanos Grigoriou

#imortality #memorial #death

Bored .... nearly to death ↗

— Melissa Bank

#death

The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence. ↗

— Joan Baez

#death

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious. ↗

— Alan Minter

#death