#lee

When I found him lying in the ditch holding a shovel, I thought he was sleeping on the job. Turns out he was being even lazier, and he was in fact dead. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#death #ditch #find #found #job

All these years later, people still wonder about how Bruce died. I prefer to remember how he lived. ↗

— Linda Lee Cadwell

#death

Those who have witnessed executions say there is no sound worse than the weeping of mother watching her son being put to death. They're wrong. There is one sound that is worse. There is silence. ↗

— Carolee Dean

#dean #dylan-dawson #execution #silence #take-me-there

There is life, and there is death, and in between there is me. Please don’t wake me up. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#awareness #death #life #sleep #wake

On the Death of his Child Dew Evaporates And all our world is dew...so dear, So fresh, so fleeting ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#fleeting-life #death

How can non-existence get sick of itself? Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else. Death just means the replacement of the usual morning waking with something else, something quite impossible even to think about. We don't even have the instrument to do it, because our mind & our world are the same thing. ↗

— Victor Pelevin

#non-existence #sleep #death

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death. ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#sleep #somnambulists #trance #death

Death's brother, sleep. ↗

— Virgil

#death #michelle-harrison #sleep #the-aeneid #unrest

Ich werde stehen und warten. Ich werde müde werden. Ich werde nicht einschlafen. Ich werde sterben. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#existence #sleep #waiting #death

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it. ↗

— Tanith Lee

#flat-earth #flesh #magician #soul #tanith-lee