#do

Silence will speak If given an ear; Stillness is the movement Of our atmosphere; Circles have sides When we draw the line; Death is sleep In limited time. ↗

— Alaina Odessa

#life #wisdom #death

If my doctor told me I only had five minutes to live, I’d probably change all the clocks in my house, because they’re all five minutes fast and I want to know exactly how much time I have left so I can use it wisely. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#doctor #foolish #live #wisdom #change

Come out, Yamiko, come out... ↗

— Katlyn Charlesworth

#historical-fiction #japan #death

Lizards that blend into the rock do so to catch flies. ↗

— Margaret Weis

#death

Who can hide himself from death or who can embrace the wind? ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#death

May this be your final sorrow. ↗

— Anita Amirrezvani

#death #death

Large portraits of Mao on wooden boards several feet high stood at main street corners. Painted to make the old man look extremely youthful, healthy, and fat (a sign of well-being in China), these pictures provided a mocking contrast to the thin, pale-faced pedestrians walking listlessly below them. Pg. 193 ↗

— Nien Cheng

#cultural-revolution #mao-zedong #propaganda #death

I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped. ↗

— Anne Enright

#death #death

Mrs Darley, I noticed, always had her corn dolly amidst an arrangement of cornflowers and poppies (albeit they were artificial!). The corn, I was to later understand, represented the God, the red poppies his sacrificial blood and the blue cornflowers his death and this is something I still adhere to today. ↗

— Carole Carlton

#carole-carlton #corn-doll #corn-dolls #corn-dolly #cornflower

Mientras pensamos en el presente, se está convirtiendo en pasado. ↗

— Qiu Xiaolong

#presente #death