#on

The Three Certainties: Death, Taxes, Bobo. ↗

— Roz Chast

#death

I see my skeleton walking down the street now. I’m walking behind it. Our feet touch the ground at the same time. I am my own shadow. The road we’re walking along looks familiar. The trees lining the pavement have been bleached by the sun. There are stone steps on my left. I climb them. This is the route I used to take after school. It’s very dark. The skeleton has disappeared. ↗

— Ma Jian

#shadow #skeleton #death

The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by its passing, just as I have yours. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#dying #grief #grieving #quotes #death

We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with. ↗

— Lou Harrison

#both #control #dangerous #get #knowledge

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning. ↗

— Bret Harte

#beginning #born #die #end #linked

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it. ↗

— Rex Harrison

#before #exhilaration #feeling #get #great

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#done #things #were #witnesses

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. ↗

— Bret Harte

#change #luck #only #sure #sure thing

I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

#free #governments #i #most #strongest

I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re the book I love the best, your skin only holds my truth, you will be a palimpsest lines of age rewriting youth. You will not burn upon the pyre. Or be buried on the shelf. You’re my letter to desire: And you’ll never read yourself. I will trace each word and comma As the final dusk descends, You’re my tale of dreams and drama, Let us find out how it ends. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#love #passion #words #age