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Only wings evade death. Neruda says so.' As he turns the page he looks at Zara and makes his bright blue eyes big. 'And Neruda knows.' He reaches for his pipe. Zara stares at him for some time. 'Was he a friend of God?' Who? Neruda?' Yes.' He may have been, I'm not sure, petite. For all we know he may even have been God. ↗

— Susan Mann

#death

Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences together, alienates us as surely as the ramblings of a madman on a bus. ↗

— David Bowker

#death

—Most distinguished voyager, what was your eon like? —Comic. Terror is forgotten. Only the ridiculous is remembered by posterity. Death from a wound, from a noose, from starvation Is one death, but folly is uncounted and new every year. ↗

— Czesław Miłosz

#death

Death is nothing to us, because a body that has been dispersed into elements experiences no sensations, and the absence of sensation is nothing to us. ↗

— Epicurus

#death

You'll forget your inner peace, forget that it comes from impermanence. From knowing that everything will break. And only reason can right you. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#death #family #fantasy #love #philosophy

If you have the courage to love, then you should have the courage to suffer, too. ↗

— E.H. Majaw

#love #suffering #courage

My Message to you all is of Hope, Courage and confidence. ↗

— Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah

#courage #inspirational #courage

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

#courage #dangerous #desperate #difficult #form

Your boss takes a dim view of SEX? ↗

— Vincent H. O'Neil

#directing #girlfriend #love #murder #mystery

Give a man with a death wish a bottle of whisky and a loaded gun, you get a dead body. Give a martyr a quote from scripture and a pocket full of prayers and you get a room full of corpses. ↗

— Kevis Hendrickson

#rogue-hunter-saga #zealotry #zyra-zanr #death