#mortality — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mortality, aggregated by home.social.
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One may live and learn, and be hang’d and forget all.
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/84009/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #advice #learn #lessons #liveandlearn #mortality #proverb #survival
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How diabetes could drain $5 trillion from the global economy by 2050
New modeling shows diabetes is not only a health crisis but also a long-term economic threat, with disability,…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #Aging #Airpollution #AU #Australia #blindness #CardiovascularDisease #diabetes #disability #Education #Healthcare #Kidney #KidneyDisease #Labor #mortality #pollution
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How diabetes could drain $5 trillion from the global economy by 2050
New modeling shows diabetes is not only a health crisis but also a long-term economic threat, with disability,…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #Aging #Airpollution #AU #Australia #blindness #CardiovascularDisease #diabetes #disability #Education #Healthcare #Kidney #KidneyDisease #Labor #mortality #pollution
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How diabetes could drain $5 trillion from the global economy by 2050 https://www.byteseu.com/2014672/ #Aging #AirPollution #Blindness #CardiovascularDisease #diabetes #Disability #economy #EDUCATION #Healthcare #Kidney #KidneyDisease #labor #Mortality #Pollution
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Is this why science advances one funeral at a time?
https://nautil.us/is-this-why-science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time-1280650
#HackerNews #science #progress #innovation #research #mortality #knowledge
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Is this why science advances one funeral at a time?
https://nautil.us/is-this-why-science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time-1280650
#HackerNews #science #progress #innovation #research #mortality #knowledge
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Is this why science advances one funeral at a time?
https://nautil.us/is-this-why-science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time-1280650
#HackerNews #science #progress #innovation #research #mortality #knowledge
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Is this why science advances one funeral at a time?
https://nautil.us/is-this-why-science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time-1280650
#HackerNews #science #progress #innovation #research #mortality #knowledge
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Is this why science advances one funeral at a time?
https://nautil.us/is-this-why-science-advances-one-funeral-at-a-time-1280650
#HackerNews #science #progress #innovation #research #mortality #knowledge
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I take aim to soften Meghan Sullivan's Time-Bias assertion:
https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/against-temporal-neutrality?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true#philosophy #blog #podcast #time #bias #future #essay #neutrality #candles #betrayal #mortality
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I take aim to soften Meghan Sullivan's Time-Bias assertion:
https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/against-temporal-neutrality?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true#philosophy #blog #podcast #time #bias #future #essay #neutrality #candles #betrayal #mortality
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I take aim to soften Meghan Sullivan's Time-Bias assertion:
https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/against-temporal-neutrality?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true#philosophy #blog #podcast #time #bias #future #essay #neutrality #candles #betrayal #mortality
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I take aim to soften Meghan Sullivan's Time-Bias assertion:
https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/against-temporal-neutrality?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true#philosophy #blog #podcast #time #bias #future #essay #neutrality #candles #betrayal #mortality
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I take aim to soften Meghan Sullivan's Time-Bias assertion:
https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/against-temporal-neutrality?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true#philosophy #blog #podcast #time #bias #future #essay #neutrality #candles #betrayal #mortality
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Compared to 17 other high-income countries, death rates are higher in the U.S. from multiple causes. Although death rates from homicides were much higher in the U.S., the largest contributor to excess deaths was circulatory diseases for every year from 1999 to 2022 except for 2010.
Summary: https://scienceblog.com/america-has-a-heart-problem-not-just-a-drug-problem/
Original paper: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2848779
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www.nature.com/articles/s44... 1/ " #mortality burdens attributable to socio-economic disparities, with +301,799 temperature-related #deaths linked to the inability to keep the #home warm, +183,071 to #population ageing (≥80 years) and +180,402 for income #inequality " #climate #climatechange
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s44360-026-00106-0
" #mortality burdens attributable to socio-economic disparities, with +301,799 temperature-related #deaths linked to the inability to keep the #home warm, +183,071 to #population ageing (≥80 years) and +180,402 for income #inequality "
This is not just within #Europe but relevant globally. We can fix this very easily if we tax the wealthy and use the revenues to provide essential things such as #food #water #electricity #housing #healthcare #education #safety
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From @paulkrugman.substack.com "And there is a strong correlation between #rightwing #politics and increased #mortality — stronger than many of the statistical associations that guide #publichealth policy.... Deep red states like Alabama and West Virginia have life expectancy comparable to, say, Kazakhstan."
#uspoli #maha
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From @paulkrugman.substack.com "And there is a strong correlation between #rightwing #politics and increased #mortality — stronger than many of the statistical associations that guide #publichealth policy.... Deep red states like Alabama and West Virginia have life expectancy comparable to, say, Kazakhstan."
#uspoli #maha
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A Skeleton (1856) by Charles H. Bennett, from Shadows.
Source: Harvard University
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/266517ba-a7d6-4927-af1b-9af276a2c8a2
#duality #shadows #victorian #mortality #character #skeletons #physiognomy #art #publicdomain
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Risk taking and the coffin on the horizon
A few months ago I signed up for a daily “newsletter.” This guy, this poet George Bilgere emails a poem he loves and then says a few words about why he picked it. And so every day for months now I’ve started each day with a poem, and besides dogs, I think it’s the best thing to happen to me in the last year.
I’m not a poetry person. I would say that 95% of the poems I read, I either don’t understand, don’t like, or both. And yet I still keep reading a lot of poetry because the other 5% make it worth it. But for some reason this guy George gets me. We are on the same wavelength.
The poems he sends are approachable, digestible by my middling intellect, but no less meaningful in the way that poetry can cut right through you and reveal something meaningful in just a few words. Anyway, his newsletter is called poetry town, with George Bilgere. A few of my favorites from the last few months have been The Coyote, by Alan Feldman; Fix, by Alicia Suskin Ostriker; a song in the front yard, by Gwendolyn Brooks; and Wild Turkeys, by Lawrence Kessenich.
Otherwise, not much is happening in my life besides that I’ve been so busy and stressed at work the last few months that I’ve wanted at times to blow up my life (which is barely held together in any case) and quit my job and hit the road and head to Mexico and then deep into South America and never look back. I’ve been skipping the gym and skipping my personal writing because I’ve been too exhausted to do either, which has only made everything worse.
So the other day, instead of exploding, I signed up to do a reading at an open mic event this June. Terrified isn’t quite the word for how I’m feeling about it, but it will be a first for adult me, though back in grade school we had to read out loud in class (which also terrified me).
As I’ve gotten older, especially within the last few years, I’ve made a direct effort to face some of my fears, like spiders and public speaking, though ideally not both simultaneously. I think this is just one of the many thrilling benefits of the increasing weight of mortality as one ages—the now-or-never risk-taking that comes from the contemplation of the coffin on the horizon.
My long-term goal for the past few years has been to take an improv class, and someday to get on stage and try to do stand-up comedy, which I will do in secret should it ever happen, probably in a town where no one knows me, a drifter passing through who no one in town has ever seen before and who they hope they will never see again after what transpires. But that is still far down the road.
The improv class has been on my radar for a couple years or more now as a thing I intend to do but never get around to doing, and so, baby steps. Foot in the door. Reading aloud to a small crowd who may judge me in the harsh stage light is the first step.
My thought is that this will begin to build my public-speaking courage, and after a few of these experiences, I’ll sign up for that improv class and become more comfortable without a script in my hand. Then I will someday put the storytelling and the improv together and get on a stage and tell a story or jokes that are perhaps rehearsed but not entirely memorized. And after I do that, I think I’ll go skydiving, because someday the chute won’t open for all of us. And when I hit the ground, I want to hit the ground unafraid.
#blogs #books #fears #humor #mortality #poem #poems #poetry #reading #relationships #work #writing -
Memento mori — remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die — what makes this any different from a half hour?
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher
Path of Life [Calendar of Wisdom; Круг чтения], ch. 21 “Living in the Present,” sec. 5.12 (1903-1911) [(tr. Cote (2002)]More about this quote: wist.info/tolstoy-leo/83806/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #tolstoy #leotolstoy #pathoflife #brevity #death #goodliving #lifespan #living #mementomori #mortality #prioritization #timelimit
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Where She Let Go
I imagine you as you were— towering, sovereign, unafraid— your branches speaking in wind-tongue, your leaves whispering secrets to the sky. Click the 🔗 to read on…https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/05/03/where-she-let-go/
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https://www.europesays.com/ch/59096/ Early institutional care linked to shorter life expectancy decades later #ChildCare #children #LifeExpectancy #Mortality #Smoking #Zürich
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The Watchers: A Rite Becoming
The trees bent inward, their limbs draped in long, trailing veils, like mourners who had forgotten how to leave. Stone markers rose from the earth in uneven rows, some proud, some sinking, all whispering in a language older than memory.https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/the-watchers-a-rite-becoming/
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The Watchers: A Rite Becoming
The trees bent inward, their limbs draped in long, trailing veils, like mourners who had forgotten how to leave. Stone markers rose from the earth in uneven rows, some proud, some sinking, all whispering in a language older than memory.https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/the-watchers-a-rite-becoming/
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The Watchers: A Rite Becoming
The trees bent inward, their limbs draped in long, trailing veils, like mourners who had forgotten how to leave. Stone markers rose from the earth in uneven rows, some proud, some sinking, all whispering in a language older than memory.https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/30/the-watchers-a-rite-becoming/
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Where Pain Learns to Breathe: And Still, I Do
I cherish what is good— those fragile, golden fragments of ease— but I dread what is required: the procedures, the waiting, the quiet endurance of pain. Still, it humbles me. It teaches me to love as if each day is a final draft, as if time itself is borrowed…https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/where-pain-learns-to-breathe-and-still-i-do/
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Where Pain Learns to Breathe: And Still, I Do
I cherish what is good— those fragile, golden fragments of ease— but I dread what is required: the procedures, the waiting, the quiet endurance of pain. Still, it humbles me. It teaches me to love as if each day is a final draft, as if time itself is borrowed…https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/where-pain-learns-to-breathe-and-still-i-do/
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Where Pain Learns to Breathe: And Still, I Do
I cherish what is good— those fragile, golden fragments of ease— but I dread what is required: the procedures, the waiting, the quiet endurance of pain. Still, it humbles me. It teaches me to love as if each day is a final draft, as if time itself is borrowed…https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/where-pain-learns-to-breathe-and-still-i-do/
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Where Pain Learns to Breathe: And Still, I Do
I cherish what is good— those fragile, golden fragments of ease— but I dread what is required: the procedures, the waiting, the quiet endurance of pain. Still, it humbles me. It teaches me to love as if each day is a final draft, as if time itself is borrowed…https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/where-pain-learns-to-breathe-and-still-i-do/
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Where Pain Learns to Breathe: And Still, I Do
I cherish what is good— those fragile, golden fragments of ease— but I dread what is required: the procedures, the waiting, the quiet endurance of pain. Still, it humbles me. It teaches me to love as if each day is a final draft, as if time itself is borrowed…https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/where-pain-learns-to-breathe-and-still-i-do/
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Do Smart People Actually Live Longer? What 1.1 Million Lives and 70 Years of Data Reveal About IQ and Longevity
https://iqcertificate.org/blog/do-smart-people-actually-live-longer
#smart #people #science #data #mystery #game #theories #socioeconomic #hypothesis #death #intelligence #life #lifespan #longevity #mortality #iq #iqscore
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Do Smart People Actually Live Longer? What 1.1 Million Lives and 70 Years of Data Reveal About IQ and Longevity
https://iqcertificate.org/blog/do-smart-people-actually-live-longer
#smart #people #science #data #mystery #game #theories #socioeconomic #hypothesis #death #intelligence #life #lifespan #longevity #mortality #iq #iqscore
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Do Smart People Actually Live Longer? What 1.1 Million Lives and 70 Years of Data Reveal About IQ and Longevity
https://iqcertificate.org/blog/do-smart-people-actually-live-longer
#smart #people #science #data #mystery #game #theories #socioeconomic #hypothesis #death #intelligence #life #lifespan #longevity #mortality #iq #iqscore
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Do Smart People Actually Live Longer? What 1.1 Million Lives and 70 Years of Data Reveal About IQ and Longevity
https://iqcertificate.org/blog/do-smart-people-actually-live-longer
#smart #people #science #data #mystery #game #theories #socioeconomic #hypothesis #death #intelligence #life #lifespan #longevity #mortality #iq #iqscore
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Do Smart People Actually Live Longer? What 1.1 Million Lives and 70 Years of Data Reveal About IQ and Longevity
https://iqcertificate.org/blog/do-smart-people-actually-live-longer
#smart #people #science #data #mystery #game #theories #socioeconomic #hypothesis #death #intelligence #life #lifespan #longevity #mortality #iq #iqscore
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Beneath the Feather of Ma’at
There, where the heart is weighed against the feather of Ma’at, I feel his presence— Anubis, patient and precise, his touch neither cruel nor kind, but lingering… knowing.https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/27/beneath-the-feather-of-maat/
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Half Shadow, Half Hymn
I belong to the night— to the corridors where ghosts grow honest, where they shed the polite lie of absence and breathe again through memory’s ribs. Where ancestors press their mouths to my ear, whispering in bone-language, where the veil hangs in tatters— not a barrier, but a dare. Love lives here. Even after the burial. Even after the last goodbye forgets its own echo. I have felt the universe inhale— a slow, cosmic breath beneath the skin of thought, binary bones […]https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/half-shadow-half-hymn/
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Drinking coffee alters your microbiome, mood, and memory
From your gut microbes to your mood and memory, new resea…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #Abstinence #Anxiety #AU #Australia #Blood #bloodpressure #Brain #Caffeine #CardiovascularDisease #Chronic #Coffee #diabetes #drowsiness #Fatigue #Gut-BrainAxis #Liver #Metabolism #Metabolite #Metabolites #Microbiome #mortality #physicalactivity #Physiology #Polyphenol #research #Sleep #stress #Stroke #TNFα #type2diabetes
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Drinking coffee alters your microbiome, mood, and memory
From your gut microbes to your mood and memory, new resea…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #Abstinence #Anxiety #AU #Australia #Blood #bloodpressure #Brain #Caffeine #CardiovascularDisease #Chronic #Coffee #diabetes #drowsiness #Fatigue #Gut-BrainAxis #Liver #Metabolism #Metabolite #Metabolites #Microbiome #mortality #physicalactivity #Physiology #Polyphenol #research #Sleep #stress #Stroke #TNFα #type2diabetes
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/450194/ Rectal cancer deaths in older millennials are rising rapidly #cancer #Colon #ColonCancer #Colorectal #ColorectalCancer #Éire #Endoscopy #Gastroenterology #Health #IE #Ireland #Mortality #PrimaryCare #Research #Surgery
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Excessive daytime napping linked to higher risk of death in older adults, study finds
People who love to nap may be alarmed to hear that dozing off during the day is linked…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #adulthealth #Death #Health #mortality #naps #Philadelphia #Research #Sleep #studies
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Excessive daytime napping linked to higher risk of death in older adults, study finds
People who love to nap may be alarmed to hear that dozing off during the day is linked…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #adulthealth #Death #Health #mortality #naps #Philadelphia #Research #Sleep #studies
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A quotation from Edmund Spenser
Death is an equall doome
To good and bad, the common Inne of rest.Edmund Spenser (c. 1552-1599) English poet
The Faerie Queene, Book 2, Canto 1, st. 59 (1589-96)More about this quote: wist.info/spenser-edmund/83479…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #spenser #edmundspenser #death #doom #equality #eternalrest #humancondition #mortality #restinpeace
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Cervical cancer death rates among women in the United Kingdom have fallen by around 80% since 1950.
In 1950 there 8.6 deaths from cervical cancer per 100 000 women. By 2021 this had fallen to 1.7.
#CervicalCancer #Health #UK #Women #Mortality #SmearTest #Vaccination #HPV #Cancer
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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe
FAUSTUS: No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer,
That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.
(The clock striketh twelve.)
O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,
Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell.
(Thunder and lightning.)
O soul, be changed into little water drops,
And fall into the ocean, ne’er be found!
My God, my God, look not so fierce on me!
(Enter Devils.)
Adders, and serpents, let me breathe a while!
Ugly hell, gape not. Come not Lucifer!
I’ll burn my books! Ah, Mephistophilis!
(Exeunt Devils with Faustus.)Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 19), l. 1498ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christophermarlowe #kitmarlowe #faustus #damnation #deadline #death #demons #devils #dying #mortality #trapped
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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe
FAUSTUS: No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer,
That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.
(The clock striketh twelve.)
O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,
Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell.
(Thunder and lightning.)
O soul, be changed into little water drops,
And fall into the ocean, ne’er be found!
My God, my God, look not so fierce on me!
(Enter Devils.)
Adders, and serpents, let me breathe a while!
Ugly hell, gape not. Come not Lucifer!
I’ll burn my books! Ah, Mephistophilis!
(Exeunt Devils with Faustus.)Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 19), l. 1498ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christophermarlowe #kitmarlowe #faustus #damnation #deadline #death #demons #devils #dying #mortality #trapped
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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe
FAUSTUS: No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer,
That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.
(The clock striketh twelve.)
O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,
Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell.
(Thunder and lightning.)
O soul, be changed into little water drops,
And fall into the ocean, ne’er be found!
My God, my God, look not so fierce on me!
(Enter Devils.)
Adders, and serpents, let me breathe a while!
Ugly hell, gape not. Come not Lucifer!
I’ll burn my books! Ah, Mephistophilis!
(Exeunt Devils with Faustus.)Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 19), l. 1498ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christophermarlowe #kitmarlowe #faustus #damnation #deadline #death #demons #devils #dying #mortality #trapped
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A quotation from Christopher Marlowe
FAUSTUS: No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer,
That hath deprived thee of the joys of heaven.
(The clock striketh twelve.)
O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,
Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell.
(Thunder and lightning.)
O soul, be changed into little water drops,
And fall into the ocean, ne’er be found!
My God, my God, look not so fierce on me!
(Enter Devils.)
Adders, and serpents, let me breathe a while!
Ugly hell, gape not. Come not Lucifer!
I’ll burn my books! Ah, Mephistophilis!
(Exeunt Devils with Faustus.)Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 19), l. 1498ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christophermarlowe #kitmarlowe #faustus #damnation #deadline #death #demons #devils #dying #mortality #trapped