Some women wear a miniskirt to reveal their thighs, some wear one to conceal their age.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Such is true joy’s absolute certainty,Its slow lit fuse that burns holesIn the shabby shroud of death forever.
~ Scott Hastie
Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die
~ Munia Khan
We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul)
~ Charles De Leusse
In the last photograph of her, the bullet wound looked like a cheerful summer rose arranged just above her left ear. A few petals had fallen on her kaffan, the white shroud she was wrapped in before she was laid to rest.
~ Arundhati Roy
