#death

I see my skeleton walking down the street now. I’m walking behind it. Our feet touch the ground at the same time. I am my own shadow. The road we’re walking along looks familiar. The trees lining the pavement have been bleached by the sun. There are stone steps on my left. I climb them. This is the route I used to take after school. It’s very dark. The skeleton has disappeared. ↗

— Ma Jian

#shadow #skeleton #death

The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by its passing, just as I have yours. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#dying #grief #grieving #quotes #death

..."the waiting-room atmosphere in which death was the delayed train... ↗

— Edward St. Aubyn

#death

Когда смерть подступила к человеку и уже не уйдет, он остается один. Сколько бы и кто бы ни был рядом. ↗

— Ales Adamovich

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One who seeks to control others is one who suffers from the affliction of fear. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#t-f-hodge #death

A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pitty in all the glittering multitude. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#death #great-expectations #stars #death

The Skeleton Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No: I may not tell the best; Surely, friends, I might have guessed Death was but the good King's jest, It was hid so carefully. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#hope #laughter #skeleton #death

- Senhor Uhtred! - Como sempre, Willibald reagiu à minha provocação. - Esse peixe - ele apontou o dedo trêmulo na direção dos ossos - foi um dos dois que Nosso Senhor usou para alimentar 5 mil pessoas! - O outro devia ser um peixe incrivelmente grande - respondi. - O que era? Uma baleia? ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

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Colin believed that the world contained exactly two kinds of people: Dumpers and Dumpees. A lot of people will claim to be both, but those people miss the point entirely: You are predisposed to either one fate or the other. Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken." (1) breakup, (2) divorce, or (3) death. ↗

— John Green

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I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman! ↗

— Arthur Miller

#death-of-a-salesman #willy-loman #death