#dead

None of the dead come back. But some stay. ↗

— John of Patmos

#death-ghosts #death

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#death #persist #persistence #remembrance #wine

إن الناس إذا أعتقدوا أن تحتضر ، يعطونك كامل اهتمامهم .. إذا كانت هذه هي آخر مرة يرونك فيها يرونك حقًا .. وينسون كل شيء آخر عن دفاتر شيكاتهم وأغاني الراديو و العناية بشعرهم . إنك تظهر باهتمامهم الكامل .. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#death #novel #death

It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep their composure even in death. ↗

— Bernhard Schlink

#memories #death

the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in. ↗

— Italo Calvino

#death #home #the-dead #death

How came she by her death? How came she there? Was she slain by accident, or had she met with violence? were the questions that pressed upon our thoughts. But we said little then and after a time left her where we found her. It mattered not to her that the bed was hard or the air cold. ("A Night In An Old Castle") ↗

— George Payne Rainsford James

#dead #death #murder #death

Instead, I opened my eyes to find the thing in front of my face, wafting dead horse breath across my chin and up my nose, its mouth like a gaping maw; its eyes, two giant wormholes, twisting and bending with some apparitional substance that could have been space and time if I’d known anything about physics. ↗

— Shannon Celebi

#apparitional #dead #death #death-and-dying #eye

I’ll kill you with kindness. And if that doesn’t work, I’ll kill you with something deadlier, like a karate chop.
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— Jarod Kintz

#death #funny #humor #karate #kill

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#carpe-diem #dead #death #dream #dying

The dead could only speak through the mouths of those left behind, and through the signs they left scattered behind them. ↗

— Robert Galbraith

#death #death