Weary with my weariness, white last moon, sole regret, not even. To be dead before her, on her, with her, and turn, dead on dead, about poor mankind, and never have to die any more, from among the living. Not even, not even that. My moon was here below, far below, the little I was able to desire. And one day, soon, son, one earthlit night, beneath the earth, a dying being will say, like me, in the earthlight, Not even, not even that, and die, without having been able to find a regret.
-Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies
"Regret expresses affectively a profound phenomenon: the advance through life into death. It shows us how much has died in us. I regret something which died in me and from me. I bring back to life only the ghost of past experiences. Regret reveals the demonic significance of time: while bringing about growth, it implicitly triggers death."
E. M. Cioran, On The Heights of Despair (via depressionparty)
“The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.”
— Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Man beholds the earth, and it is breathing like a great lung; whenever it exhales, delightful life swarms from all its pores and reaches out toward the sun, but when it inhales, a moan of rupture passes through the multitude, and corpses whip the ground like bouts of hail."
Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah (via poeticsofdeath)
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1311, f.14. The travel diary (“Reisebuch”) of Alsatian world traveler Georg Franz Müller. 1669-1682.
“Müller was employed by the East India-Holland Company between 1669 and 1682 as a soldier in the Indonesian archipelago. In the “Reisebuch” he sketched people, animals and plants that he encountered during his voyage (via South Africa) to Indonesia and his travels in Indonesia. He also composed simple, sometimes rough verses, about all these people, animals and plants, and wrote them out in his idiosyncratic, difficult to read script.”
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The jade death mask of Mayan king Pacal the great (K’inich Janaab’ Pakal.)
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Duplicate of Pacal’s tomb in Palenque.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 357, detail of f. 343. Missal. St. Gall, 1555.
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"But imminence is at the same time menace and postponement. It pushes on, it leaves time. To be temporal is both to be for death and to still have time, to be against death."
Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity (via poeticsofdeath)
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"Death has an extreme and definite relation to me and my body and is grounded in me, but it also has no relation to me at all—it is incorporeal and infinitive, impersonal, grounded only in itself."
Gilles Deleuze, The Logic of Sense (via poeticsofdeath)
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