“Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a note unsaid.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
Source: The Collected Poems
“How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.”
— Cormac McCarthy, book Suttree
page 153
Source: Suttree (1979)
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