Jessamyn West - Death Quotes

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When death threatens, when a good-bye is faced, how one searches the past for images, begins to shoal up the past for future use.

Jessamyn West

Cry for joy in April,
Cry for death in fall.
Birth's an open gateway,
But death's a solid wall.

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At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

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Kissing was like death from lightning. If it happened, you didn't know it. And vice versa.

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Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

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Every arrival foretells a leave-taking: every birth a death. Yet each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

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