#rut

Speak you too, speak as the last, say out your say. Speak- But don’t split off No from Yes. Give your say this meaning too: Give it the shadow. Give it shadow enough, Give it as much As you know is spread round you from Midnight to midday and midnight. Look around: See how things all come alive- By death! Alive! Speaks true who speaks shadow. But now the place shrinks, where you stand: Where now, shadow-stripped, where? Climb. Grope upwards. Thinner you grow, less knowable, finer! Finer: a thread The star wants to descend on: So as to swim down beliow, down here Where it sees itself shimmer:in the swell Of wandering words. ↗

— Paul Celan

#speak #truth #words #death

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sand castles, houses of cards, that’s where they begin. Their great skill is in their capacity to escalate. ↗

— Marcus Zusak

#destruction #humanity #serious #truth #death

But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever. ↗

— William Saroyan

#goodness #hope #truth #death

Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny. ↗

— James Jones

#existence #fear #scrutiny #death

Everyone absolutely knows what a strawberry tastes like, even if you are allergic to them. Everyone absolutely knows what the toilet flushing sounds like. Everyone absolutely scratches their mosquito bites. And I know that I was absolutely ready to die. This wasn't a cry for help. I didn't want to be saved. I was ready to call it quits. Done. Terminado. ↗

— Kimberly Russell

#suicide #the-truth-about-lilly-barnes #death

Tragedy is when someone ends up dead. Everything else is just a bump in the road. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#tragedy #truth #death

Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first! ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#truth #death

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#power #quotes #response #silence #truth

Masks camouflage the faces of both good and evil. Keeps hidden what is a truth and what is a lie. ↗

— Patti Roberts

#evil #hidden #lie #life #truth

Humans are about to grasp basic substances of all creations. When that moment comes, life or death are no longer matters. ↗

— Toba Beta

#creation #death #life #secret #truth