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Fri 5 Aug 2016

The unwalled city

Posted by PJ under death, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.”

—Epicurus, quoted in The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Fri 22 Jul 2016

Unfinished

Posted by PJ under death, finishing, quote of the day
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“Let death take me planting my cabbages, indifferent to him, and still less of my garden not being finished.”

—Michel de Montaigne, The Essays, Book 1 (tr. Charles Cotton)

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Tue 17 Nov 2015

The Kingdom

Posted by PJ under childhood, death, poetry, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.”

—Edna St. Vincent Millay,
“Childhood Is The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies”

You can read the entire remarkable poem here.

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Fri 11 Sep 2015

Same same

Posted by PJ under conformity, death, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The real death of the United States will come when everyone is just alike.”

—Ralph Ellison, “That Same Pain, That Same Pleasure,” Shadow and Act

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Tue 4 Aug 2015

In love with death

Posted by PJ under death, graveyards, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

—Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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Wed 3 Jun 2015

Live until you die

Posted by PJ under death, fulfillment, quote of the day, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.”

—A. C. Grayling, “This Much I Know,” The Guardian, July 4, 2009

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Tue 2 Jun 2015

I vice, therefore I am

Posted by PJ under death, obsession, quote of the day, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”

—Ernest Hemingway, Conversations with Ernest Hemingway, ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli

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Tue 21 Apr 2015

Starvation

Posted by PJ under death, longing, love, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The dead leave us starving with mouths full of love.”

—Anne Michaels, “Memoriam”

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Fri 17 Apr 2015

Gloriosum

Posted by PJ under death, otherworld, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it.”

—Carl Jung, letter to Frau N., 11 July 1944, after having a near death experience

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Thu 9 Apr 2015

Brief candle

Posted by PJ under death, light, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Man, like a light in the night, is kindled and put out.”

—Heraclitus, Fragment 76

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