“When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end.” EndsRunningDeathCoursesNaturalAcceptingUnhappyCyclesLiving ThingsIntangible Author:Rachel Carson
“Death is the twin of love and mother of us all, she struggles equally for men and women and never accepts differences of caste or class. It's death that quickens us and brings us forth on sheets of love, clasped between sleep and wakefulness and barely breathing for a spell, and thus my death shall be like everybody else's death, as majestic and as pathetic as a king or a beggar's, neither more nor less.” MenDeathMotherDifferencesSleepAcceptingClassStruggleKingsMen And WomenBreathingSpellsTwinsSheetsPatheticBeggarMajesticCastes Book:Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories Source: Sweet Diamond Dust: And Other Stories
“The mature, forty-five-year-old woman, quite experienced in matters of life and death, knows that it was 'for the best,' but Daddy's girl, who hung onto his belt and danced fox trots on the tops of his shoes, cannot accept that Daddy is not here anymore.” KnowsYearsMatterDeathGirlAcceptingFiveShoesFive YearsLife And DeathFortyMatureHungFoxesDaddyBeltsOld WomanFive Year Olds Author:Mary-Lou Weisman
“The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.” IfsFormDeathAnswersAcceptingDyingSweetEternalTransformationSympathyAffirmativeLove DeathSomeone DyingLoved One DyingSweet Death Book:Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography Source: Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography