Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Lawrence Clark PowellTags: life books death read literature
Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life.
Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death.
Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.
Tags: life inspirational death
Time that withers you will wither me. We will fall like ripe fruit and roll down the grass together. Dear friend, let me lie beside you watching the clouds until the earth covers us and we are gone.
Jeanette WintersonTags: friendship time death
He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
Terry PratchettCopulation is no more foul to me than death is.
Walt WhitmanI do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Mark TwainTags: inspirational death
There is no remedy for death—or birth—except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.
Jim CraceThe power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.
Don DeLilloTags: death
No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.
Don DeLilloTags: death
When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.
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