#death

There is shadow under this red rock // (Come in under the shadow of this red rock) // And I will show you something different from either // Your shadow at morning striding behind you // Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you // I will show you fear in a handful of dust. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#dust #fear #shadows #waste-land #death

To say that death opposes life is just the same as you would say you live the absolute truth. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#wisdom-inspirational #death

...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death) ↗

— J.D. Robb

#strong #death

It takes a few days for the transformation to be complete, depending on how much venom is in the bloodstream, how close the venom is to the heart. As long as the heart keeps beating, poison spreads, healing, changing the body as it moves through it. Eventually the heart stops, and the conversion is finished. But all the time, every minute of it, a victim would be wishing for death ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#heart #transformation #twilight #twilight-saga #vampire

One day u will be the message...a message for those who still alive... ↗

— Fayrouz Yasser

#death #فيروزيات #change

She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little figure at the gate The angels must have spied, Since I could never find her Upon the mortal side. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#death #emily-dickinson #rebirth #death

The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English casualty rates during the Napoleonic wars, English generals were more lavish with their soldiers' lives than were their French and German colleagues. ↗

— J. Christopher Herold

#napoleonic-wars #soldiers #age

In the end, age in numbers is no more than an empty bag. The only way to truly tell a person's years is by examing the contents they have filled it with. ↗

— Thurman P. Banks Jr.

#age

Lying on the metal table in front of me was a middle-aged man decked out in absolutely nothing at all. A dead man. Buck-ass naked with his little shriveled junk right there for everyone to see. ↗

— Diana Rowland

#age

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity. ↗

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

#death-series #self-realization #tamara-rose-blodgett #unrequited-death #age