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“The friend I can trust is the one who will let me have my death. The rest are actors who want me to stay and further the plot.”

Book:Leaflets

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Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Rich was an American poet known for her profound poetry and feminist perspective. Her works explored themes such as gender, politics, and social justice, having a profound impact on contemporary poetry. more

“Ever two seconds, somewhere in the world, a child dies of starvation. That means every two seconds there is a story where the main character dies. That's a lot of horrible stories. So if my death looks like a sad story to someone else, I hope those people will use their imagination to think of all the children who don't get special deaths.”

Children Stories Death Sadness Dying Starvation Sad Stories

Book:Bokurano: Ours, Vol. 9

Source: Bokurano: Ours, Vol. 9

“When I first accepted my own death, the world was intantly changed. It was a completely new sensation. It took something like this to finally open my eyes. Before, I had simply shut myself off so that I could not see, could not hear. What had I been doing all this time?”

Life Death Dying Life Changing Life And Death Life Experience

Book:Bokurano: Ours, Vol. 6

Source: Bokurano: Ours, Vol. 6

“Spring had been the season for dying in the old days. Invalids who had struggled through the dark comfort of winter took fright as the night receded.”

Death Dying Spring Winter Sickness Invalids

Author:Mavis Gallant

“The merciful Providence - or whatever power there is in the universe - has so ordained things that our little world will go on without us. Indeed, it will not miss us for long. It is a comfort to know that the waters close over us quickly. Only a few remember the splash and struggle, and fancy it important, really....I daresay we are making all this fuss for nothing.”

Philosophy Death Peace Dying

Author:Anne Sullivan Macy

“Kada su Kristoferu rekli da mu je do kraja života ostala još samo jedna rečenica, on je odlučio da više ne govori, i tako je umro, ćutke, s prstom na usnama. “Kao da ga je ugušila neizrečena rečenica”, rekao je neko kasnije, na sahrani ili, možda, u crkvi, dok su čekali sveštenika. (Kraj života)”

Death Language Dying

Book:Male priče

Source: Male priče

“But as in the degrees of sickness thou art to submit to God, so in the kind of it (supposing equal degrees) thou art to be altogether indifferent whether God call thee by a consumption or an asthma, by a dropsy or palsy, by a fever in thy humours, or a fever in your spirits; because all such nicety of choice is nothing but a colour to a legitimate impatience, and to make an excuse to murmur privately, and for circumstances, when in the sum of affairs we durst not own impatience.” Jeremy Taylor’s “Holy Dying”, extract from chapter IV.I (The Practice of Patience) para 5.”

Death Spirit Dying Sick Affair Choice Consumption Impatient Fever Asthma Dropsy Palsy

Author:Jeremey Taylor

“We are all dead, we just haven't figured it out yet.”

Death Dying Obliviousness

Book:The Shattered Veil

Source: The Shattered Veil

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