#los

Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child. ↗

— William Trevor

#loss #tragedy #death

It's a happy life and someone is missing. ↗

— Elizabeth McCracken

#loss-of-a-baby #death

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making. ↗

— Ian Williams

#closer #distortion #guitar #i #i think

It was the word 'late' that did it. Such a stupid word to use of the dead, implying that they would be with us today if they hadn't happened to be delayed in traffic somewhere... ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#grief #loss #death

I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me. ↗

— Maija Haavisto

#philosophical #taboo #death

Tev bija taisnība, zvaigznes ir tuvu. ↗

— Gundega Repše

#latvian #philosophy #death

Ali život se nikome, razumete li me, nikome na ovom svetu ne duguje. Ni majci, ni deci, ni prijeteljima, ni jedom idealu! Život je moje neprikosnoveno pravo! U šta i kako ću ga satreti, moja je lična stvar. ↗

— Dobrica Ćosić

#life-and-death #life-philosophy #serbian #death

Pain and guilt tore through him. His soul was bleeding to death. He stood there, waiting to die. How could he not? But such wounds were not fatal. ↗

— Diana Pharaoh Francis

#mercy #death

You can truly value life, when you have looked Death in the eyes and held its hand. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#life-philosophy #values-in-life #death

Surely this is what death would be like: nothingness, oblivion, as the world continued to turn, heedless of her absence. ↗

— Meredith Duran

#philosphical #truth #wise #death