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What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough? ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#blackness #certain #certain things #dress #enough

The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government. ↗

— George Will

#america #continuous #government #political #skepticism

How can non-existence get sick of itself? Everytime you wake up, you appear again out of nowhere. And so does everything else. Death just means the replacement of the usual morning waking with something else, something quite impossible even to think about. We don't even have the instrument to do it, because our mind & our world are the same thing. ↗

— Victor Pelevin

#non-existence #sleep #death

Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#horrors #stasis #time #death

Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you. ↗

— Edward Payson Roe

#death

Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ay, And that bare vowel ay shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. I am not I,if there be such an ay, Or those eyes shut,that make thee answer ay: If he be slain say ay,or if not,no: Brief sounds,determine of my weal or woe. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#death

I said, you're the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul. ↗

— J.D. Robb

#romance #death

Any good Irwin can make going to the corner store for a candy bar and a Coke lood death defying and suicidal. ↗

— Mira Grant

#death

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

#lost-someone #death

Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#death #ferryman #death