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I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind. ↗

— Kage Baker

#readers #readers-and-writers #writers #death

The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing landscape of street or wall or paling sky or the figures of the children who stood blessing themselves in the gray light. This man and his burden passed on forever out of that nameless crossroads and the women stepped once more into the street and the children followed and all continued on to their appointed places which as some believe were chosen long ago even to the beginning of the world. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#death #death

After Harding's death, the taciturn vice president, Calvin Coolidge, moved into the White House. In contrast to his predecessor's political cronyism and outgoing style, Coolidge personified austere rectitude. As vice president "Silent Cal" often sat through official functions without uttering a word. A dinner partner once challenged him by saying, "Mr. Coolidge, I've made a rather sizable bet with my friends that I can get you to speak three words this evening." Responded Coolidge icily, "You lose. ↗

— James A. Henretta

#death

Confront death! All of your piteous insecurities derive from this primal fear.. ↗

— Thanos Grigoriou

#fear #insecurity #death

EKDIN JONMER PROYOJONEY CHHOTO HOECHHILAM, EKHON MRITTUR PROYOJONE BORO HOCHCHHI. [[ I was made small for the sake of my birth, now growing for the sake of my death ]] ↗

— Nirmolendu Goon

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All the deaths are dead for nothing but you're not dead at all. ↗

— Daniel Handler

#death

كان الموت يبدو لاذعاً، وكان قوياً وطيباً معاً. كأب حنون يعود إلى البيت بابن تاه. وعلمت فجأة من جديد أن الموت هو أخونا الذكي الطيب الذي يعرف الساعة المناسبة والذي ينبغي علينا أن ننتظره آمنين مطمئنين ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#death

Toute fin de vie quelconque s'apparente plus ou moins au rangement; on n'a plus envie de se lancer dans un projet neuf, on se contente d'expédier les affaires courantes. Toute chose que l'on n'a jamais faite, fût-elle aussi anodine que préparer une mayonnaise ou disputer une partie d'échecs, devient peu à peu inaccessible, le désir de toute nouvelle expérience comme de toute nouvelle sensation disparaît absolument. (La possibilité d'une île, Daniel 1,23) ↗

— Michel Houellebecq

#dying #death

Well, this is the hardest part to believe; look, you can suspend me if you want to, but it's the God's honest truth. This man Tompkins came all the way down to where I was bending over the body at the foot of the stairs. I straightened up and covered him with my gun. It didn't faze him in the least, he kept moving right on past me toward the street-door. Not quickly, either; as slowly as if he was just going out for a walk. He said, 'It isn't my time yet. You can't do anything to me with that.' ("Speak To Me Of Death") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#fate #death

Enormous cemeteries existed among sedentary civilizations, where the weight of the past grew larger than any present time. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#death #death