#de

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#death

When it is winter and we must walk in the blizzard snow do not our fingers and toes whisper death  And when winter is at last over. . .can we not hear our bellies whisper death to us  In the dark don't we know  And when we are paralyzed by nightmares  We know what you are.  With our first cries we rail against you.  We see you in every drop of blood in every tear. ↗

— Martine Leavitt

#keturah-and-lord-death #martine-leavitt #death

Death;the only language they speak is tears.. ↗

— Thilsath

#death

Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#words #death

If I lived by some code, my actions would become predictable. The enemy would take advantage of this and I’d be killed. An honorable death doesn’t exist. Death is death. But it’s funny that survival and revenge require the same thing: no honor codes, no supposed higher principles to aspire to, no mercy ↗

— Frank Beddor

#honor #death

Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#literature #nadine-gordimer #writing #death

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#cancer #death #friendship #grief #loss

Her killer wrote a note on that stationary." "A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it? ↗

— J.D. Robb

#in-death-series #mystery #death

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness. ↗

— Willa Cather

#pity #virgin-mary #woman #death

Y allá en el fondo está la muerte si no corremos y llegamos antes y comprendemos que ya no importa. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#death