Go Tell It on the Mountain quotes about mortality
8 quotes on mortality from Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book. Drawn from the 59 in the full collection.
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Love is as strong as death, as deep as the grave.
God’s got your number, knows where you live, death’s got a warrant out for you.
Then John knew that a curse was renewed from moment to moment, from father to son. Time was indifferent, like snow and ice; but the heart, crazed wanderer in the driving waste, carried the curse for ever.
Men spoke of how the heart broke up, but never spoke of how the soul hung speechless in the pause, the void, the terror between the living and the dead; how, all garments rent and cast aside, the naked soul passed over the very mouth of Hell.
Yes, the darkness hummed with murder: the body in the water, the body in the fire, the body on the tree.
Listen. God is talking.
Broadway: the way that led to death was broad, and many could be found thereon; but narrow was the way that led to life eternal, and few there were who found it.
Ten years. Their battle never ended; they never bought a home. He died in France.
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