#eat

There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#reign-of-terror #the-rover #death

They WERE walking alongside the road, they WERE hit by a car, and now they ARE dead. It doesn't work. Are is present tense. Dead is -- well, dead is past, isn't it? Present tense modifying past; being modifying non-being. Language, in this instance" -- and here Miriam makes a garbled noise in her throat-- "fails. ↗

— Myla Goldberg

#death #language #myla-goldberg #death

We returned to our palaces, these Kingdoms, but no longer at ease here in the old dispensation, with an alien people clutching their gods. I should be glad of another death. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#poetry #death

The Death is rather o solution then a punishment,and the way to the next level of existence ↗

— Stuparu Razvan

#death

E é justo? E é possível que uma coisa tão pequena como uma pistola ou uma navalha possa dar cabo de um homem, que é um touro? Nao vou me calar nunca. Os meses passam e o desespero me perfura os olhos e pica até nas pontas do cabelo. ↗

— Garcia Lorca F

#death

Und das Atmen fällt mir ach so schwer. ↗

— Rammstein

#heavy-metal #death

Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. ↗

— G. Gordon Liddy

#defeat #fear #welcome

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, pas, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#death

To me it was plain silly. It is so obvious that life works in terms of species rather than individuals. The individual just has to be born, to develop to the point at which it can procreate, and then to fall away into death to make way for its successors, and humans are no exception whatever they may fancy. ↗

— Diana Athill

#life #social-science #death

Death, when it's right there it doesn't seem too huge and terrible to let into your mind. ↗

— Rosie Thomas

#death