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We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases — Thomas Browne

I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than polar bears. — Ben Saunders

Give me the Black Death over a Victorian prude any day. At least the dying screw like it's their last day on earth. — R.E. Vance

We stand in black to watch this rite performed, the body in the box, the box in the hole, the dirt on the box. — Johnny Rich

Do you know what the Turkish say about coffee? It should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love. — Holly Black

What's the difference between dragging a black man behind a truck in Jasper, Texas, and beating a white boy to death in Wyoming because he's gay? — Nikki Giovanni

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life. — Wassily Kandinsky

Putting black cloths on the hives is for us. I do it to remind us that life gives way into death, and then death turns around and gives way into life. — Sue Monk Kidd

For a long time I searched for the black stone that cleanses the soul of death. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

I was made to rule the darkness. — Rae Hachton

I'm a prodigal son. The black sheep of a white flock. I shall die on the gallows. — William A. Drake

The Black Death was a faithful visitor to Florence. It arrived, on average, once every ten years, always in the summer. — Ross King

In art and mythology, the Goddess appears in three forms. White represents the virgin, red the mother, and black, the crone, or the death-goddess. — Erin O'Riordan

When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it? — Sergei Lukyanenko

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life. — Aldous Huxley

They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing. — John Green

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. — Bertrand Russell

Black is the color of night. White is the true color of death — Melissa De La Cruz

Today I seen a dove collide into the sunset, on the way to heaven and a ruined raven chewing on death, over the pavement. — Anthony Liccione

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell. — Henry Ward Beecher

In the dream, Tana's mother loved her more than anyone or anything. More than death. — Holly Black

Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
And be buried in the dust of marching feet. — Etheridge Knight

Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole. — Terence McKenna

The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide. — Larry Elder

We see his smile of love even when others see nothing but the black hand of death smiting our best beloved. — Charles Spurgeon

I have made my bed
In charnels and on coffins, where black death
Keeps record of the trophies won — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Three youths in Hanover who snatched a lady's handbag in the black-out have been sentenced to death. — William L. Shirer

Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all. — Saul Bellow

pupils were fixed in the position of wide black dilatation that signifies brain death, and obviously would never respond to light again. — Joan Didion

The world turned into a big black hole while my daughter was on the verge of life and death. — Ziauddin Yousafzai

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape. — David Gerrold

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all. — Abdelkader El Djezairi

The rain is the sky crying for the death of summer. — Fabian Black

A heart? Peppone knows where one is to be met with. There is always someone in the black market in need of dying early. — Michelle Franklin

The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists. — Yahtzee Croshaw

She's standing above me the goddess of death, black lips and cold hands. — Kendare Blake

I covered the scar with concealer every day because I wanted my body to be a flawless figurine, but this blemish would be with me forever. — Scarlet Risque

Faeries are associated with wild untamed nature, with art, and with death - so the folklore is rich with different stories to explore. — Holly Black

That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead. — Stephen King

...the thought of *never again* felt like death. — Robin Black

If his surroundings could have reflected the feelings inside him, the pictures would have been screaming in pain. — J.K. Rowling

Black was not the universal hue of mourning in Europe. In Castile, white obtained on the death of its princes. — Sabine Baring-Gould

The stars of death stood over us. And Russia, guiltless, beloved, writhed under the crunch of bloodstained boots, under the wheels of Black Marias. — Anna Akhmatova

I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death. — Fairuza Balk

Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset? — Daniele Vare

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life. — Charles Frahman