#death

All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem about death too. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#evidence #poetry #teeth #death

You may have the dark and cold street life, ruled by the lessor light of the moon. During this time I restore my temple, and later awake to greet the awesome radiance of the sun-star. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#cold #dark #life #light #moon

A live body is not only one which never gets old, but one that can to some extent repair itself. In the same way, a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble - because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat the kind of voulentary death Christ Himself carried out. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#death

It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#death #life #toni-morrison #death

Life, by definition, is never still. Where is it going? From birth to death, with no stops on the way. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#death

私は何ものかが、私を殺してくれるのを待っていた。 ところがそれは、何者かが私を生かしてくれるのを待っているのと同じことなのである。 ――『仮面の告白』より ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#japanese #life #death

Many collectors died in process of searching for new species, and despite persistent reports that the men died from drowning, gunshot and knife wounds, snakebite, trampling by cattle, or blows in the head with blunt instruments, it is generally accepted that in each case the primary cause of death was orchid fever. ↗

— Eric Hansen

#history-of-mankind #humor #orchids #death

Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think. ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#eternal-champion #magic #man #mankind #sanity

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile. ↗

— Julie Burchill

#completely #correct #death #honestly #inappropriate

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#bored #death #die #i #my own