#death

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#hemingway #humor #poets #terza-rima #death

Strangest problems of life seem clearing; but clouds sweep between--Is my journey’s end coming? ↗

— Herman Melville

#human-condition #humanity #life #mortality #death

Birth pushes, death pulls; only you can slow the time between. ↗

— Jack Sanger

#death

Wilson had been killed by everybody. It was this that made his death special, the children had been told. It was justice, it was all the people showing how much they hated this crime. Killing was justice when everybody joined in. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#community #justice #punishment #death

He looked as if he had been beaten to death with a wine bottle, but by doing it with the contents of the bottle. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#description #wine #wine-bottle #death

I don't want to give too much of it away, because I haven't cleared it with Bob, but the treatment is twenty years, and she, in an effort to protect herself faked her death and did a series of things regarding Dr. Loomis, who has died, because Michael Myers was after her. ↗

— Kevin Williamson

#away #because #bob #cleared #death

And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#death #hauntingly-beautiful #art

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain. ↗

— Kabir

#impermanence #old-songs #sword-sentiments #wisdom #zen

I only suggest to you: Will you dwell on killing this man? You wish for revenge? If you do, he has already killed you by slow poison. So, let it go. Why waste your time? His life will see to his death. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#grudge #revenge #death

He would reach for me in the middle of the night, nearly every single night, wrapping one of those solid arms around my waist and pulling me in close. So. Close. ↗

— Chelsie Shakespeare

#desire #dreams #love #meant-to-be #past-lives