#death

"Self-destruction would be a brief, almost autoerotic free-fall into a great velvet darkness."

"I love you,"he said, his voice catching. "When I thought you were going to die, I wanted to die."

"Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life—a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple—the painter is giving you a secret message. He’s telling you that living things don’t last—it’s all temporary. Death in life. That’s why they’re called natures mortes. Maybe you don’t see it at first with all the beauty and bloom, the little speck of rot. But if you look closer—there it is."

"Hidden [10w] A woman is an iceberg;we see less than 10%."

"Unruffled [10w] Nothing’s calmer than an unruffled duck eating a cool cucumber."

"Even in the grave, all is not lost."

"That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking."

"I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life."

"Ode to a Wastepaper Basket I love the way you sit in the corner,gracious like a lover,catching my every crumpled vanity."

"Promising vs. Promises A promising life comes from a childhood without broken promises."

"There is love in holding and there is love in letting go."

"Pacifism There's nothing like seeing action in war to turn a soldier into an instant pacifist or an instant killer."

"I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing."

"Love Fades [10w] Like our love,Chinese painters show distance in faded grays."

"When in Doubt [10w] If your relationship becomes stagnant,set fire to her dress."

"Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die"--- and find that there is no death."

"An eye for an eye my friend."

"A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy."

"When darkness falls and eyes stay shutA chain of voices opens up.Let wax not wane give breath to death.p.s. Shhh"-Yvonne Woon(Dead Beautiful)"

"Death, only, renders hope futile."