deathward

The former tendency is what I call the deathward -- deathward for all else but itself; and the Christ is the lifeward, life for all else but itself.

The New Theology 1911

These two tendencies we may describe as the deathward and the lifeward respectively.

The New Theology 1911

At the center of Posthumous Keats is the journey deathward.

Keats's Afterlife Ricks, Christopher 2009

Or as in Achilles: his eyes meeting Penthesilea's, recognizing suddenly of the Amazonian queen's great beauty, the warrior falls in love with her but the deathward, plunging tip of his sword lies presently one angstrom away from her throat.

Archive 2005-11-01 2005

Or as in Achilles: his eyes meeting Penthesilea's, recognizing suddenly of the Amazonian queen's great beauty, the warrior falls in love with her but the deathward, plunging tip of his sword lies presently one angstrom away from her throat.

WTC Memorial Mock-Up, or: The ¼ Garden 2005

Nay, said Merlin, not so, for I could save myself an I would; and thou art more near thy death than I am, for thou goest to the deathward, an God be not thy friend.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

In such struggles life spends itself fast; an inward wound does not carry one deathward more surely than this worst wound of the soul.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

Would my heart and life flow onward -- deathward -- through this dream of THEE! '

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

So translated by Floyd Dell: "O ye deathward-going tribes of man, what do your lives mean except that they go to nothingness?"

A Book of Prefaces 1918

The words are not very satisfactory because the deathward tendency masquerades as the lifeward tendency, and the lifeward tendency, before fruition, looks like the deathward one.

The New Theology 1911