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Quote by Donald Hall

“Your presence in this house is almost as enormous and painful as your absence.”

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Donald Hall is a renowned American poet, born on September 20, 1928. His poetry is known for its simplicity, depth, and emotional richness, which has won him a wide audience. more

“It is not too late... there is time still." I am dying. There are tears in my eyes. Please cradle my head in your hand. Let me look into the stars. Are they really in the sky? Or are they just in my mind because what is there I cannot see? The woman tilted her head, revealing a rim of bruising around a clean-tucked hole in her head. There was blood. Dry blood. This is more pain than a human heart can bear. Like fistfuls of fear, cries shoot from my eyes. There are tears running down my face. It is a salty, bitter taste. My wounds need care. I look up to my mom, but can think of nothing to say. I am dying. I need you. Embrace me. I am dying... "Shhhh...”

Stars Fear Sky Dying Tears Mom Embrace

Author:Milan Sime Martinic, Ironway: Watching Over Benjamin Hill -

“There’s no pain, or even discomfort, which she’s happy about. If she should die, at least it shall be painless.”

Death Dying Beast Forest Wolf Fantasy Young Adult Attack Fantasy Series Wolf Shifters Dying Young

Book:The Return of Light

Source: The Return of Light

“There are two groups in the World; First ones are Living for dying Rest ones are Dying for living”

World Dying Living World Peace Living Life Dying At Home Dying For Love

Author:IPS.PAUL

“Time is made for dying in a thousand ways, so why be afraid of dying when a kind of dying could come all the time? Live every day like you're terminal. Because you are. Live every day like your soul is eternal. Because it is.”

Time Dying Living

Book:The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

Source: The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“Ted thought: I am probably not dying but I am scared and alone and I don't like this.”

Dying Scared Alone Kristen Roupenian You Know You Want This

Book:You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

Source: You Know You Want This: Cat Person and Other Stories

“Proposing a woman who is beyond your class & league is a dying art.”

Art Dying Proposing

Author:Nitya Prakash

“Little stirs people to write as much as death’s approach.”

Writing Dying Death S Approach

Author:Michael Shindler

“By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhaps he can ride. But there is a way of looking at a halter that would provoke the most charitable of saints into a kick.”

Philosophy Humanity Hierarchy Social Norms

Book:Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“Are you past pity? If you have consciousness now, if I something I can call "you" has something like "consciousness," I doubt you remember the last days. I play them over and over: I lift your wasted body onto the commode, your arms looped around my neck, aiming your bony bottom so that it will not bruise on a rail. Faintly you repeat, "Momma, Momma.”

Death Poetry Loss Grief Dying Poem Illness Mourning End Of Life

Author:Donald Hall

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