“Death is nothing but death, but it prevents life. If you are afraid, life has no value, and if you die, everything dies.~~ December 18, 2024”
— Abdelnasser Abdelfattah
“Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life. There has been endless times of numberless deaths, but neither consciousness nor life has ceased to arise. The felt quality and cycle to death has not modified the fragility of flowers, even the flowers within the human body.”
— Adi Da, "Prologue", The Knee of Listening
“Philosophy first commands us to have death ever before our eyes, to anticipate it and consider it beforehand, and then she gives us rules and caveats in order to forestall our being hurt by our reflections!”
— Montaigne, Essays, M. Screech, trans. (1991), Book III, Chapter 12, “Of Physiognomy,” p.1190
“Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.”
— Sophocles Electra, 1007.
“And God said, "A way must be conceived to pursue the dead beyond the tomb."”
— Mark Twain, Letters From the Earth (1909)
“The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of millions is a statistic.”
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