Death Row Syndrome

Famous quotes containing the words death, row and/or syndrome:

    “My death from the wrists,
    two name tags,
    blood worn like a corsage
    to bloom
    one on the left and one on the right....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “all afternoon
    Their witless offspring flock like piped rats to its siren
    Crescendo, and agape on the crumbling ridge
    Stand in a row and learn.”
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    “[T]he syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech’s daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)