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“We never know we go when we are going- We jest and shut the Door- Fate-following-behind us bolts it- And we accost no more-.”

Knows Death Behinds Fate Doors Following Bolts Jest

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.”

Death Dies Doors

Author:John Masefield

“Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness. Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.”

Doe Death Consciousness Worry Doors Conflict Stress Variety Disguise Symptoms Mirroring Wellspring Membranes

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“Death is the continuing of life ... the next part of our life. It's like walking through a door, you know? Walking through the door marked "Death": It's the beginning of a new part of our journey.”

Knows Death Next Our Lives Doors Journey Walking Continuing

Author:Rosemary Altea

“There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we can know are those untrustworthy glimpses--that and rumour. The prattle. The dead gossip: it is the reverberation of that gossip against the surface tension of death that the better mediums hear. It is like listening to whispered secrets through a toilet door. It is a crude and muffled susurrus.”

Knows Death Secret Knowing Doors Listening Surface Mediums Tension Gossip Glimpse Toilets Crude Rumours Untrustworthy Membranes Reverberation

Author:China Mieville

“Death hath so many doors to let out life.”

Death Doors Life Death

Author:John Fletcher

“So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.”

Death Dies Doors Hero Halls Funeral Banquets

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.”

Death Waiting Doors

Book:Poems by John Masefield

Source: Poems by John Masefield

“Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with its touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes its noisy way to your seat on the sofa.”

Way Death Doors Fronts Silent Seats Surprising Kitten Noisy Sneak Unwanted Sofas Front Doors

Author:Hugh Elliot

“You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.”

Ifs Death Poor Doors Week Description Nails Lively Julius

Author:Laura E. Richards

“Oh Lord! Open the doors of night for me So that I may leave this place and disappear.”

May Death Night Lord Doors Disappear

Author:Victor Hugo

“Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.”

People Lasts Death Doors Dying Died Breaths Longing Mansions Deserted

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.