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“I know what the fear is.The fear is not for what is lost.What is lost is already in the wall.What is lost is already behind the locked doors.The fear is for what is still to be lost.”
“It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own bones was somehow unique and precious to the universe, in some obscure corner of my mind I wanted...”
“Mortality is one of the greatest gifts ever bestowed. After a long and fruitful life, we are able to rest.”
“The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.”
“Whether at Naishpr or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.”
“Think not, O Mortal, vainly gay.That Thou from Human Woes is free,The bitter cup I drink today,Tomorrow may be drunk by thee.”
“Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!”
“All flesh shall perish together and man shall turn again unto dust.”
“Oh why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Like a fast-flitting meteor a fast-flying cloud A flash of the lightning a break of the wave He passes from life to his rest in the grave.”
“Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain...”
“I Don’t Know whether lust is a human coarseness or a human fineness: I don’t know why death holds a so sweet lure since it would take away my Body: I don’t know that I wouldn’t deny my Christ, if I...”
“A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.”
“Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.”
“A small fact:You are going to die....does this worry you?”
“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
“On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
“As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.”
“What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream”
“Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us...”
“Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we shallBreathe out the very Breath we now breathe in!”
