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“Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.”

Eye Death Grows Sweet Heavy Evening Sweet Death

Book:Sammlung

Source: Sammlung

“Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay.”

Cry Son Sweet Instruments Hunger Immortality Mortality Decay Documents Sweet Death

Book:Old and New Poems

Source: Old and New Poems

“The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life”

“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.”

Ifs Form Death Answers Accepting Dying Sweet Eternal Transformation Sympathy Affirmative Love Death Someone Dying Loved One Dying Sweet Death

Book:Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography

Source: Hermann Hesse: A Pictorial Biography

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.”

Source: Salmagundi

“Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone are the civilized beings who talk of manners and journeys and letters; in their places are two bodies straining to give birth to a burst of inhuman pleasure followed by a great, floating nothingness. An explosion of life followed by death - in this we live, and in this we foreshadow our own sweet deaths.”

Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra

“But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man’s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.”

Men Heart Kind Spirit Sweet Broken Endure Gentle Healed Forgetfulness Bruised Sweet Death

Book:What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

“I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.”

Children Grows Growing Up Sweet Grew Grew Up Household Fifth Midwest Winnipeg Sweet Death

Author:Len Cariou