Mort Safe

“Then Mount Jerome for the protestants. Funerals all over the world everywhere every minute.
Shovelling them under by the cartload doublequick.
Thousands every hour. Too many in the world.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress. A little bride of death...”
― Georges Rodenbach, The Bells of Bruges

“As coisas que vivem ao pé da morte sentem-nos e vêm ter connosco. Quando somos capazes de ver as coisas que vivem ao pé da morte é porque estamos ao pé dela. É sinal que vamos morrer.”
― David Soares, A Luz Miserável

“I got the sexton, who was digging Linton’s grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again—it is hers yet—he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it...”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights