#death

That's the source of the meditation on death I've carried in my heart all my life. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#death

We shall live to die once more. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#life #wisdom #death

...in that cold autistic dark. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#life-and-death #death

No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf. ↗

— Mark McGinty

#historical-fiction #the-cigar-maker #ybor-city #death

The blind lead the blind; we will come to sea. ↗

— Sumanth Bharadwaj

#humor #life #love #philosophy #science

In a typical desperation for quick answers, easily understood, people had turned to primitive worship as the solution. With less than success. Not only had they died as quickly as the rest of the people, but they had died with terror in their hearts, with a mortal dread flowing in their very veins. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#religion #death

His own parents, the estimable Gilchrists, a couple who had taken the 'till death' part of their own wedding vows so seriously he wouldn't be surprised if they one day throttled one another, had naturally wangled the next best seat in the house: row two, on the aisle. ↗

— Ally Blake

#vows #death

Maybe one did have to be smart in order to kill. ↗

— Markelle Grabo

#fairies #fantasy #ramsey #death

Ain't no decent woman ever had that many husbands to die from natural causes. ↗

— K. Martin Beckner

#humor #natural-causes #widow #death

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood. ↗

— Sebastian Barry

#war #wwi #death