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Copulation is no more foul to me than death is. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#sex #death

Every morning is my birthday and every night is my death-day. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life #death

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long. ↗

— Stephen King

#death

Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace. ↗

— Mark Matousek

#death

Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#death #lonely #ocean #death

For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man. ↗

— Plato

#fear-of-death #plato #death

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. ↗

— Huey Newton

#fear #itself #meaning #without

How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?" he asked. He waited a few minutes, but the three of us didn't say anything. He continued: "Every time people come at us with the intention of killing us, I close my eyes and wait for death. Even though I am still alive, I feel like each time I accept death, part of me dies. Very soon I will completely die and all that will be left is my empty body walking with you. It will be quieter than I am. ↗

— Ishmael Beah

#death

Doing whats right is never easy ... You think you're right, but you lose track of what you were trying to do all along and then there's blood and screaming and death.Doing a bad thing for a good end just sours the good. ↗

— Janice Hardy

#death

Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all. ↗

— R.L. LaFevers

#death