Grave Images
By Keigh Serah
Grave Images
By Keigh Serah
Thoughts on death and life
With pretty photos of cemeteries
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2011 Keigh Serah
Thank you for downloading this free ebook.
Although this is a free book, it remains the copyrighted property of the author,
and may not be reproduced, copied and distributed for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy at Smashwords.com, where they can also discover other works by this author.
And visit Keigh’s blog
http://girlsnightinbooks.blogspot.com/
“On a large enough time line,
the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
Chuck Palahaniuk
“When the game is over,
the king and the pawn go into the same box.”
Italian Proverb
“Death may be the greatest
of all human blessings.”
Socrates
“Here was a man who now for the first time
found himself looking into the eyes of death
- who was passing through one of those rare
moments of experience when we feel the truth
of a commonplace, which is as different from what
we call knowing it, as the vision of waters upon the
earth is different from the delirious vision of
the water which cannot be had to cool the burning tongue.
When the commonplace ‘We must all die’ transforms itself suddenly into the acute consciousness ‘I must die--and soon,’
then death grapples us, and his fingers are cruel; afterwards,
he may come to fold us in his arms as our mother did, and
our last moment of dim earthly discerning
may be like the first.”
George Eliot
“All say ‘How hard it is that we have to die’
- a strange complaint to come
from the mouths
of people who have had to live.”
Mark Twain
“Remembering that you are going to die
is the best way I know to avoid the trap
of thinking you have something to lose.
You are already naked. There is no reason
not to follow your heart.”
Steve Jobs
“We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears.
We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.”
David Sarnoff
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow
and I am in them and that is eternity.”
Thomas More
“Perhaps they are not stars, but rather
openings in heaven where the love
of our lost ones pours through and
shines down upon us to let us
know they are happy.”
Eskimo Proverb
“A person starts dying when they stop dreaming.”
Brian Williams
“Try as much as possible to be wholly alive,
with all your might, and when you laugh,
laugh like hell and when you get angry,
get good and angry.
Try to be alive.
You will be dead soon enough.”
William Saroyan
“I'm not afraid of death.
It's the stake one puts up in order
to play the game of life.”
Jean Giraudoux
“No one can confidently say
that he will still be living
tomorrow.”
Euripides
“Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.”
Joanne Harris
“The call of death is a call of love.
Death can be sweet if we answer it
in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of
the great eternal forms of life
and transformation.”
Hermann Hesse
“To fear love is to fear life,
and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
Bertrand Russell
“The play is the tragedy ‘Man’
And its hero the conqueror, Worm.”
Edgar Allen Poe
“If man were immortal he could be
perfectly sure of seeing the day when
everything in which he had trusted should
betray his trust, and, in short, of coming
eventually to hopeless misery.
He would break down, at last, as every good fortune,
as every dynasty, as every civilization does.
In place of this we have death.”
Charles Sanders Peirce
“Each night, when I go to sleep, I die.
And the next morning, when I wake up,
I am reborn.”
Mohandas K. Gandhi
“Between grief and nothing I will take grief.”
William Faulkner
“If, after I depart this vale, you ever
remember me and have thought to
please my ghost, forgive some
sinner and wink your eye
at some homely girl.”
H.L. Mencken
“When I am dead and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain-drenched hair,
Though you should lean above me
broken-hearted,
I shall not care.”
Sara Teasdale
“Now fades the last long streak of snow,
Now burgeons every maze of quick,
About the flowering squares, and thick,
By ashen roots the violets blow.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“In one of the stars, I shall be living.
In one of them, I shall be laughing.
And so it will be as if all the stars
were laughing when you
look at the sky at night”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Little Prince
The rain has such a friendly sound/
To one who’s six feet underground.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Life does not cease to be funny
when people die
any more than it ceases to be serious
when people laugh.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Death tugs at my ear and says,
‘Live. I am coming.’”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“My grandfather always said that living
is like licking honey off a thorn.”
Louis Adamic
“Don’t let them spread silly rumors
about me,
or make me a god....
I’m a seagull. I like to fly...”
Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man
needs to sleep, and there comes a time
when it is wrong, as well as useless,
to resist.”
Stewart Alsop
“Only when you drink from the river of silence
shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached
the mountain top, then shall you begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs,
then shall you truly dance.”
Kahlil Gibran
“There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming,
there is no going; there is no same, there is no different;
there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation.
We only think there is.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“The fear of death follows from the fear of life.
A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
Mark Twain
“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“To fear death, gentlemen, is nothing other
than to think oneself wise when one is not;
for it is to think one knows what
one does not know.
No man knows whether death may not
even turn out to be the greatest of
blessings for a human being:
and yet people fear it as if they knew
for certain that it is the greatest of evils.”
Socrates
“Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is,
knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam,
the first great benefactor of our race.
He brought death into the world.”
Mark Twain
“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
J. M. Barrie
* * * * *
Other adventures
Brought to you by Keigh Serah
Homeschooler V Middle School
Out June 2011
Where your favorite ebooks are sold
To The Rescue!
a swashbuckling tale of revenge and romance
with overt feminist overtones and
literary references galore to satisfy the
hungry bibliophiles out there!
Due out late summer 2011
a Girls’ Night In publication
http://girlsnightinbooks.blogspot.com/
Keigh’s on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002501058838