Posts Tagged With: Death

siren

 

“It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope.
We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren
until she allures us to our death.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2019.


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a colour of dust

 

“Dust into dust, and under dust to lie,
sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and-sans end!”

 

~ Omar Khayyam ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a scan of a painting made in Summer 1968 by the author.


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thistles and thorns

 

“If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden;
and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.”

 

~ Rumi ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2017.


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one chance

 

“Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.”

 

~ Terry Pratchett ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2021.


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soliloquy

 

“To be or not to be isn’t the question.
The question is how to prolong being.”

 

~ Tom Robbins ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2021.


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no regrets

 

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead.”

 

~ Oscar Wilde ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in August 2016.


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today we shine

 

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on;
and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

 

~ William Shakespeare ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.


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the waiting game

 

“Dreaming is happiness. Waiting is life.”

 

~ Victor Hugo ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.


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jungle

 

“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”

 

~ Peter De Vries ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in July 2021.


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the nectar of nature’s beautiful bounty

 

“Humanity is a cancer on the body of the world.”

 

~ Scott Westerfeld ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.


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into the silence

 

“The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.”

 

~ Mary Oliver ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.


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petals plucked

 

“Life is a stream on which we strew
petal by petal the flower of our heart.”

 

~ Amy Lowell ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in June 2021.


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one way street

 

“It’s such a strange time that we’re passing through,
I thought you’d tell me when your time was due,
I guess you thought I knew…”

 

~ Leon Russell

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in May 2021.


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second chance

 

“You know, I ain’t afraid of dyin’ but there’s one thing I can’t forget,
ain’t no one who’s gone over there, come back to talk to me about it yet…”

 

~ Memphis  Slim ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Autumn 1990.


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lepidoptera fantastic

 

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”

 

~ Carl Sagan ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2013.


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fossilized instances

 

“Though we are made of memories,
we live only in the here and now.”

 

~ Sue Halpern ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in September 2021.


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the reluctant prince

 

“Sleeping Beauty, who said to Prince Charming,
are you sure all we did was kiss?”

 

~ Red Buttons ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of street art taken in Paris in June 2019.


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the celestial laundry line

 

“That which can be asserted without evidence,
can be dismissed without evidence.”

 

~ Christopher Hitchens ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of a flexed burial dated to ca. 3000 BCE taken in January 1988.


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dead roses

 

“One man gathers what another man spills…”

 

~ Robert Hunter ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in May 2017.


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innocence

 

“Innocence crafts its own demise.”

 

~ F.T. McKinstry ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.


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