#die – @nickkahler on Tumblr

As for me ... when I die that ain’t the time I’m going to start getting choosey. They can lay me in the nearest spot. When I pass from this world I’ll be considerate of them that stay in it. I won’t be thinking of just myself.

Flannery O’Connor, “Judgement Day,” 1965

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For some time she sat where she was, looking straight ahead through the window across the room into a scene of indistinct grays and greens. She stretched her face and her neck muscles and drew in a long breath but the scene in front of her flowed together anyway into a watery gray mass. “They needn’t think I’m going to die any time soon,” she muttered, and some more defiant voice in her added: I’ll die when I get good and ready.

Flannery O’Connor, “Greenleaf,” 1956

#flannery o'connor #quote #greenleaf #lit #literature #time #window #scene #gray #green #flow #water #grey #mass #die #death #defiance #defiant #voice #good

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Close to death, one no longer sees it, and you gaze steadliy ahead, perhaps with an animal's gaze.

Rainer Maria Rilke in Paul Virilio, Bunker Archaeology, 1975

#rainer maria rilke #death #paul virilio #quote #bunker archaeology #close #gaze #animal #die

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Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.

Albert Camus, The Plague, 1947

#albert camus #quote #lit #literature #the plague #work #love #die #death #life #people #observation #easy #town #aquaintance #fate #mortal

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Life wasn’t made to be easy on folks: they wouldn’t ever have any reason to be good and die.

William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, 1930

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It takes two people to make you, one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying, 1930

#william faulkner #as i lay dying #people #death #two #one #count #die #live #make #world #eschatology

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Time, the universal devourer, and spiteful decay, there is nothing you cannot destroy. You close your envenomed jaws and little by little consume all things in a lingering death!

Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8 CE

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Alison Killing, There’s a Better Way to Die, and Architecture Can Help, 2015

#alison killing #architecture #video #cemetery #death #life #ted #lecture #die

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It is said that the plague takes three forms. In the first people suffer an infection of the lungs, which leads to breathing difficulties. Whoever has this corruption or contamination to any extent cannot escape but will die within two days. Another form ... in which boils erupt under the armpits, ... a third form in which people of both sexes are attacked in the groin.

Lodewijk Heyligen, “On the Black Death,” 1348

#lodewijk heyligen #black death #plague #disease #death #health #suffering #lung #life #breathing #breath #escape #contamination #corruption #die #form #boil #groin #armpit #people

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I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.

Andy Warhol, "On Death," c. 1970 (via mythofblue)

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observando

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

Jorge Luis Borges, "On Death," c. 1970 (via withaview)

#jorge luis borges #death #quote #lit #literature #book #legacy #incarnation #bad #die #life #afterlife #existence

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Odilon Redon, The Gambler, 1879

#odilon redon #dice #die #gambling #gambler #drawing #forest #scale #human figure #man #male #carry #landscape #oddity #game #tree #art #symbolism

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To be or not to be, That is the question. vs. To live or to die, I ask myself this.

E-Prime vs. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, c. 1600

#e-prime #quote #lit #literature #william shakespeare #hamlet #death #die #life #question #philosophy #suicide

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Alas! turning an envious eye towards the past, inconsolable by anything on earth, I keep looking at that moment of my life when I saw her open her wings and fly away! I will see that instant until I die, that instant—too much for tears! when I cried out: "The child that I had just now-- what! I don't have her any more!"

Victor Hugo, À Villequier, c. 1843

#poem #lit #literature #poetry #quote #eye #past #time #history #earth #life #wing #die #death #child #loss