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Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend for safekeeping, in case of his death. He had ridden only a few miles away when his friend, riding hard, caught up with him, saying 'You gave me the wrong key! ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#marriage #sex #death

At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#loss #death

Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#symbolism #death

I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#die #five #many #people #seventy

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it." She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:-- "And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that I was a little bit in love with you. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#kiss #love #death

So why in the name of Merlin’s saggy left —” “Don’t talk to your mother like that. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #humor #ron-weasley #death

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. ↗

— Anais Nin

#combination #death #elect #fail #go

We are constantly trying to hold it all together. If you really want to see why you do things, then don't do them and see what happens. ↗

— Michael A. Singer

#inspirational #change

It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#grief #loss #death