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I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals. I don't want to sit in my chair and be fed, much less do I want to be handed over to medical professionals. ↗

— Rosie Thomas

#fear #helplessness #death

Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death... ↗

— Georges Rodenbach

#death #girl #death

If the U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, they cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned. On 9/11/2001, Americans noticed that payback can be a real motherfucker. ↗

— Ward Churchill

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girls pentagram of death (chapter 3) ↗

— Jane Austin and Seth Grahame-Smith

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When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life, and I think about death, and neither one particularly occurs to me. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#life #death

After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until... ↗

— Walter de La Mare

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Death reminds us that we are nothing. ↗

— Stephen J. Rivele

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He is being nibbled to death by ducks. --More Later, Less the Same ↗

— James Tate

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I have a rendezvous with death... I will not fail that rendezvous ↗

— Alan Seeger

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Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude. ↗