Posts Tagged With: Death

trümmer

Posted on 22/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;

but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”

~ Comte de Lautréamont ~

Photo taken in June 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cycle, Death, Debris, Debt, Dust, Human Folly, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rubble, Ruins, Shroud, Silence, Wind | 1 Comment

my wooden face

Posted on 19/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Photo taken in April 2016.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blackness, Clueless, Confused, Death, Face, Flames, Future, Heart, Lies, Life, Oblivion, Past, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Truth, Wood | 1 Comment

the sadist

Posted on 10/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“Pleasure is sweetest when ’tis paid for by another’s pain.”

~ Ovid ~

Photo taken in the Parisian Catacombs in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Atheism, Blind Belief, Charlatans, Death, Free Will, God, Hate, Life, Paris, Perspective, Philosophy, Photography, Poetry, Punishment, Religion, Revenge, Sadist, Sin, Suffering | 1 Comment

sands of time

Posted on 09/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

~ Margaret Atwood ~

Photo taken in Paris in June 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Cobwebbed, Corroded, Darkness, Death, Eyes, Grief, Hour Glass, Life, Memories, Mirror, Pain, Paris, Past, Path, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sands, Shadows, Song, Time | 1 Comment

the other day

Posted on 07/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“Another day, a different dream perhaps.”

~ Alice Liddell ~

Photo taken in April 2026.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Death, Dream, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Time | 3 Comments

same desolate destination

Posted on 04/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“Life is a dead-end street.”

~ H. L. Mencken ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2019.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Alternative Realities, Ambience, Breath, Cloak, Darkness, Dead End Street, Death, Deception, Desolate, Destination, Dogmatic, Heartbeat, Hell, Life, Mantled, Matte, Obstruction, Paris, Paths, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Potholes, Road, Scars, Softens, Stretches, Time, Wrinkles | 1 Comment

on breath borrowed

Posted on 02/04/2026 by Nightpoet

“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”

~ D. H. Lawrence ~

Photo taken in Santorini in October 1992.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Abyss, Breath, Death, Fall, Fallacy, Fingers, Haze, Horizon, Jump, Life, Mystery, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Precipice, Promise, Pushed, Tapestry, Whispers, Windy | 1 Comment

might have made a difference

Posted on 26/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

~ Alanis Obomsawin ~

Photo taken in November 1991.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Air, Avarice, Compassion, Death, Difference, Ears, Echoes, Environment, Fish, Forest, Greed, Human Folly, Humanity, Intelligence, Life, Materialism, Money, Mountains, Ocean, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Slaughter, Trees, Water | 2 Comments

the next great adventure

Posted on 20/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“Turn on, tune in, drop out.”

~ Timothy Leary ~

Photo taken in September 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Adventure, Bummer, Chance, Death, Dice, Drugs, Hands, Life, Nothing, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Psychedelic, Unknown, Wonder | 1 Comment

delirium dancing

Posted on 19/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.”

~ Gilles Deleuze ~

Photo taken in July 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Breath, Brink, Carousel, Confusion, Consciousness, Dancing, Death, Delirium, Drifting, Life, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Swirling, Twirling | 1 Comment

lunasee

Posted on 08/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense

of those that think they talk sense.”

~ Robert Frost ~

Photo taken in Paris in May 2011.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Blossoms, Death, Frown, Life, Love, Moon, Night, Opium, Paris, Passion, Perspective, Photography, Pilgrim, Poetry, Rain, Sandals, Smoke, Spring | 2 Comments

polluted pearls

Posted on 03/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“Life is meaningless, but worth living,

provided you recognise it’s meaningless.”

~ Albert Camus ~

Photo taken in February 2023.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bottomless, Bucket, Clueless, Confused, Death, Evaporate, Helpless, Life, Moisture, Nothingness, Pearls, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Polluted, Universe | 1 Comment

the waiting game

Posted on 02/03/2026 by Nightpoet

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,

but that we begin it so late.”

~ William Mather Lewis ~

Photo taken in May 2021.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Accomplishment, Autumn, Children, Death, Game, Learn, Life, Lips, Love, Mature, Mortal Coil, Mother, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Seasons, Success, Tomorrow, Waiting, Winter | 1 Comment

sometimes it’s both

Posted on 28/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.”

~ Oscar Wilde ~

Photo taken in May 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Circus, Clowns, Death, Fields, Free, Funeral, Inmates, Life, Madhouse, Meadows, Naked, Party, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Rapture, Samuel Beckett, Waiting For Godot, Water, Wine | 1 Comment

scar

Posted on 25/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“…nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting

as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky,

ready to blink out at any moment.”

~ Nicholas Sparks ~

Photo taken in August 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Bright, Death, Dream, Fast, Heart, High, Life, Love, Meteor, Night, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Scar, Silence, Sky, Solitude, Soul, Sound, Wound | 1 Comment

lucky stars

Posted on 24/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

~ Lord Byron ~

Photo taken in May 2024.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Broken Heart, Death, Disaster, Disease, Life, Love, Luck, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Poverty, Stars, Thankful, War | 1 Comment

no fishes, no loaves

Posted on 23/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.”

“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

~ Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr ~

Photo taken in August 1979.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Conditioning, Cures, Death, Division, Fishes, Fools, Loaves, Miracles, Misery, Multiplication, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Regulations, Resurrection, Rules, Solutions | 1 Comment

why?

Posted on 22/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“Haunted and haunting, human and inhuman,

war remains with us and within us,

impossible to forget but difficult to remember.”

~ Viet Thanh Nguyen ~

Photo taken in 1994.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Corners, Death, Dying, Energy, Falsehoods, Ghosts, Hate, Immoral, Jungles, Lies, Life, Memory, Old Men, Pain, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Sacrifice, Sadness, Shadows, Souls, Suffering, Survive, Swamps, Talents, Vietnam, War, Why, Youth | 2 Comments

where the time goes

Posted on 20/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.”

~ Henry Austin Dobson ~

Photo taken in November 2022.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Clay, Cosmos, Death, Dust, Experiences, Life, Maw, Memories, Mold, Oblivion, Perspective, Photography, Poetry, Steps, Time, Winds | 1 Comment

the ghosts of things unremembered

Posted on 19/02/2026 by Nightpoet

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

~ William Shakespeare ~

Photo taken in Paris in June 2018.

Categories: Photography, Poetry | Tags: Ashes, Bridges, Darkness, Death, Desecration, Destruction, Dust, Eyes, Faces, Future, Gases, Ghosts, History, Life, Memories, Oblivion, Paris, Past, Perspective, Photography, Plaster, Poetry, Present, Shadows, Time, Walls, Water | 1 Comment

Posts Tagged With: Death

“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;

but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Pleasure is sweetest when ’tis paid for by another’s pain.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The sands of time are quicksands…

so much can sink into them without a trace.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Another day, a different dream perhaps.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Life is a dead-end street.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught,

and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening,

you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts

and that you can’t eat money.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Turn on, tune in, drop out.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Underneath all reason lies delirium and drift.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense

of those that think they talk sense.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Life is meaningless, but worth living,

provided you recognise it’s meaningless.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon,

but that we begin it so late.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“…nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting

as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky,

ready to blink out at any moment.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“The heart will break, but broken live on.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.”

“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Haunted and haunting, human and inhuman,

war remains with us and within us,

impossible to forget but difficult to remember.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

“And blind oblivion swallowed cities up.”

SPREAD THE WORD:

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