“I know death is the fascinating snake under the leaves, sliding and sliding; I know the heart loves him too, can't turn away, can't break the spell. Everything wants to enter the slow thickness, aches to be peaceful finally and at any cost. Wants to be stone.” KnowsWantHeartDeathTurnsBreakCostStonesPeacefulFascinatingSpellsSnakesAcheHeart LoveThickness Book:Dream Work Source: Dream Work
“Death lieth still in the way of life, Like as a stone in the way of a brook; I will sing against thee, Death, as the brook does, I will make thee into music which does not die.” WayDoeStillsDeathDiesStonesTheeBrooks Author:Sidney Lanier
“Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still. We show it with black feathers and black horses; we show it with black dresses and black heraldries; we show it with costly obelisks and sculptures of sorrow, which spoil half of our beautiful cathedrals. We show it with frightful gratings and vaults, and lids of dismal stone, in the midst of the quiet grass; and last, and not least, we show it by permitting ourselves to tell any number of falsehoods we think amiable or credible in the epitaph.” ThinkingWayStillsShowsLastsBeautifulDeathBlackNumbersHalfWonderfulSorrowQuietStonesHorseDressesGrassMidstFalsehoodSculptureFeathersSpoilCathedralsCredibleEpitaphAmiableVaults Book:Works Source: Works
“The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.” IfsMenMadeAgeDeathLyingGrowsTreeFrontsReturnSpringStonesRemainsWinterFadesWrinklesInsensible Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet
“in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled up in child's play, not serious at all - because death is just another way of being, and the dead will not stay put, and sometimes the actions of the dead are more significant, more profound, than their actions in life, and no structure of concrete or stone can contain them.” IfsWayChildrenSometimesPlayActionEarthDeathSeriousHugeStonesStructureProfoundSignificantGravesConcreteAnother Way Author:Jamaica Kincaid
“Every man at time of Death, Would fain set forth some saying that may live After his death and better humankind; For death gives life's last word a power to live, And, lie the stone-cut epitaph, remain After the vanished voice, and speak to men.” MenGivingMayLastsDeathLyingSpeakVoiceCuttingStonesEvery ManHumankindLast WordsEpitaph Book:Queen Mary. A Drama Source: Queen Mary. A Drama
“The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.” YearsSaidLastsPastDeathFiveWeekStonesTwentiesFive YearsCheatingRollingFifthTwenty FiveRolling StonesKeithReunitedFifth Anniversary Author:Norm MacDonald
“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.” FeelsDeathThreeLossPoetStonesTemplesThree WordsGeisha Author:Arthur Golden
“He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.” DeathGoneStonesGreenGrassHeelsHamlet And OpheliaOpheliaTurfHamlet OpheliaHamlet Death Author:William Shakespeare