#de

The portuguese never put anything behind them except a chair to eat lunch. ↗

— Robert Wilson

#death

Ein toter Mensch ist wie ein Saal, in dem ein Fest zu Ende gegangen ist. Ein rauschendes Fest. Die Menschen sind alle fort um irgendwo anders weiterzufeiern. Und schau, so ein leerer Saal hat doch was ganz Friedliches. Die Luftschlangen, die Gläser, die Musikinstrumente und die Stille. ↗

— Benjamin Lebert

#death-of-a-loved-one #death

["What happens to people when they die?" When she heard that, her grandmother made a sound that was not like a voice but a moan. And with a deep breath, she replied, "I don't know. To tell you the truth, I've never died."] ↗

— Kaho Nashiki

#death

There was something twisting in his gut that he wanted to deny and couldn't. It was like a knife in him that he could not remove lest he bleed to death. ↗

— Hazel B. West

#truth #death

Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#death #doctors #raven #death

If I endeavor to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me? The general prejudice against Mr. Darcy is so violent that it would be the death of half the good people in Meryton, to attempt to place him in an amiable light. -Chapter 7 ↗

— Jane Austen

#death

The death of a real deer at my hands was just a vaporous, remote presence that hovered over the figure of the paper deer forty-five yards away at target six of our archery range, as I tried to hit the heart-lung section marked out in heavy black. ↗

— James Dickey

#hunting #wilderness #death

O fim de uma viagem é apenas o começo de outra ↗

— José Saramago

#death

He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. ESV ↗

— Anonymous

#death #death

Abstain not! Life and love like night and day offer themselves to us on their own terms, not ours. Accept their bounty while ye may, before we accept by the worms, ↗

— Richard Hovey

#life #love #death