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★ Dead & Death (I)

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour.  Aldous Huxley

 

 

Here dead lie we because we did not choose

To live and shame the land from which we sprung.  

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose;

But young men think it is, and we were young.  A E Housman

 

 

One always dies too soon – or too late.  And yet ones whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up.  You are – your life.  And nothing else.  Jean-Paul Sartre

 

 

Better to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees.  Jean-Paul Sartre

 

 

Death is a continuation of my life without me.  Jean-Paul Sartre

 

 

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become.  One lives ones death; one dies one’s life.  Jean-Paul Sartre

 

 

The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,
Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars
Letting in the light, peephole after peephole –
A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.  Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

 

 

Dying is an art.
Like everything else,
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I have a call.  Sylvia Plath

 

 

They always want to get in on the act they sell you.  I dont think theyve done anything effective in their lives ... Butt out.  This is my life and this is my death.  Its been sanctioned by the courts that I die, and I accept that.  Gary Gilmore

 

 

Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon,

If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live;

And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.  Algernon Charles Swinburne, Ave atque Vale

 

 

For the crown of our life as it closes

Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust;

No thorns go as deep as the rose’s,

And love is more cruel than lust.  Algernon Charles Swinburne, Delores

 

 

Death and taxes and childbirth!  There’s never any convenient time for any of them.  Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind 1936

 

 

Teach him how to live,

And, oh!  Still harder lesson!  How to die.  Beilby Porteus, Death, 1759

 

 

Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life; anarchy and competition the laws of death.  John Ruskin, Unto this Last, 1862

 

 

Life itself is but a shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: all things fall under this name.  The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the shadow of God.   Lew Brown

 

 

Human life ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death.  Eric Berne, 1910-1970, Games People Play 1964

 

 

What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, as if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?  Sigmund Freud

 

 

Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours.  It’s a palliative.  The remedy is death.  Nicolas-Sebastien Chamfort

 

 

Life is a great surprise.  I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.  Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire, 1962

 

 

The Meaning of Life is that it stops.  Franz Kafka

 

 

The shock of her death froze something in me.  The child I loved had gone.  But I kept looking for her long after I left my own childhood behind.  The poison was in the wound, you see, and the wound wouldn’t heal.  Lolita 1997 starring Dominique Swain & Jeremy Irons & Frank Langella & Suzanne Shepherd & Melanie Griffith & Keith Reddin & Erin J Dean & Joan Glover & Pat Pierre Perkins & Ed Grady & Michael Goodwin & Angela Paton & Ben Silverstone et al, director Adrian Lyne; viz Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

 

 

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.  Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

 

Death is the end of life; ah, why

Should life all labour be?  Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Lotus-Eaters, 1832

 

 

‘So this is it,’ said Arthur, ‘We are going to die.’

 

‘Yes,’ said Ford, ‘except... no!  Wait a minute!’  He suddenly lunged across the chamber at something behind Arthur’s line of vision.

 

‘What’s this switch?’ he cried.

 

‘What?  Where?’ cried Arthur, twisting round.

 

‘No, I was only fooling,’ said Ford, ‘we are going to die after all.’  Douglas Adams, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy  

 

 

They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending future, waiting themselves for death, at the foot of the dead, in a holy temple.  – I get a vision of myself and the two little boys hung up in a great endless universe with nothing overhead and nothing under but the Infinite Nothingness, the Enormousness of it, the dead without number in all directions of existence whether inward into the atom-worlds of your own body or outward to the universe which may only be one atom in an infinity of atom-worlds and each atom-world only a figure of speech – inward, outward, up and down, nothing but emptiness and divine majesty and silence for the two little boys and me.  Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler 

 

 

The sun that warmed our stooping backs and

Withered the weeds uprooted –

We shall not feel it again

We shall die in darkness and be buried in the rain.  Edna St Vincent Millay, Justice Denied in Massachusetts, re execution of Sacco & Vanetti

 

 

I shall die, but

That is all that I shall do for Death.  Edna St Vincent Millay, Conscientious Objector

 

 

Our new Constitution is now established and has the appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.  Benjamin Franklin

 

 

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.  Benjamin Franklin

 

 

This world that was our home for a brief spell never brought us anything but pain and grief; it’s a shame that not one of our problems was ever solved.  We depart with a thousand regrets in our hearts.  Omar Khayyam

 

 

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.  Daniel Defoe, 1660-1731

 

 

If we must die, we die defending our rights.  Sitting Bull

 

 

If it means my death, I don’t care, because even death will be a sort of freedom.  Catherine Fisher, Incarceron

 

 

Not only are selves conditional but they die.  Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead.  So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?  John Updike, Self-Consciousness

 

 

For billions of people around the world death still acts as a gateway to heaven.  Ancient Aliens s3e5: Aliens and Mysterious Rituals, History 2011 

 

 

Arthur: A child wants to see.  It always begins like this, and it began like that then.  A child wanted to see ... What he saw there became his first memory ... A small boy and a corpse ... An encounter in a curtained room.  A small boy and a corpse.  Julian Barnes, Arthur & George: Beginnings ch1

 

 

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.  Socrates

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