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Visitors offering their condolences, thinking to comfort me, said "Life goes on." What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on; Ian is dead now and will be dead tomorrow and next year and forever. There's no end to that. But perhaps there will be an end to the sorrow of it. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#life #sorrow #death

Not success. Not growth. Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life … is death. ↗

— Stephen Jenkinson

#life #stephen-jenkinson #death

A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well. ↗

— Glen Chambers

#slavery #death

She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking. ↗

— Angela Carter

#dream #life #reality #sleeping #waking

We all know so goddamn well what's best for other people that it seems unnecessary we get to know them before imposing our will on them. ↗

— Taylor Nadeau

#domineering #strongarm #will #death

Azel was an aficionado in killing and in chocolate cake. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#chocolate #death #fantasy #killing #scifi

The winter was not really winter at all, and therein may lie Key West's greatest charm. If one does not have to brood upon the coming of winter and the shortening of the days and the fading of the light, then perhaps one does not have to brood upon the coming of death. When the season is gentle and untreatening and seems to renew itself daily, we come to believe that spring and the long days of summer may be eternal after all. When we see the light trapped high in the sky on a summer evening, is it possible we are looking through an aperture at our future rather than at a seasonal phenomenon? Is it possible that the big party is just beginning? ↗

— James Lee Burke

#death

what is the death if not the way to the second ''level '' of existence.. and what is the life if not a river ..and the death a ocean and when you will realy ..start to climb if not after you'll reach the top of the mountain.. and when the spirit will be free if not after the earth will take back..what was given. ↗

— Stuparu Razvan

#death

Death chased you Natalie. You have lived your life surrounded by it. You seek it. You creep around in dark places searching for it but you are afraid of it aren’t you? ↗

— Nicole T. Smith

#death

What is with those Wakefield women that makes them think they’re better than everybody?' Ken asked. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#death