Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There is uncertainty in hope, but even with its tenuous nature, it summons our strength and pulls us through fear and grief— and even death. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
who journeyed to Denver, who died in Denver, who came back to Denver & waited in vain, who watched over Denver & brooded and loned in Denver and finally went away to find out the Time, & now Denver is lonesome for her heroes, Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What do you want to do with your life, then?” is often the question I'm asked.To be honest, I don't know. I really don't.Mainly because I don't see myself living long enough for that to make much of a difference. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Oh, we do not understand death, we never understand it; creatures are only truly dead when everyone else has died who knew them. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What had happened still seemed implausible. A person was present your entire life, and then one day she disappeared and never came back. It resisted belief. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
After all, what is every man? A horde of ghosts – like a Chinese nest of boxes – oaks that were acorns that were oaks. Death lies behind us, not in front – in our ancestors, back and back until... Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
And thus we all are nighingThe truth we fear to know:Death will end our cryingFor friends that come and go. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Everyone was eating, talking softly, glancing at me, hugging me, eating. It was as if someone had turned the volume down. Everything looked normal, but the sound was muted. Death did this, set all this weirdness in motion, made people appear out of nowhere carrying casseroles, saying 'I'm sorry' over and over, death muffled their voices. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
