death

death

Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Tonight I saw myself in the dark window asthe image of my father, whose lifewas spent like this,thinking of death, to the exclusionof other sensual matters,so in the end that lifewas easy to give up, sinceit contained nothing: evenmy mother's voice couldn't make himchange or turn backas he believedthat once you can't love another human beingyou have no place in the world.

Tonight I saw myself in the dark window asthe image of my father, whose lifewas spent like this,thinking of death, to the exclusionof other sensual matters,so in the end that lifewas easy to give up, sinceit contained nothing: evenmy mother's voice couldn't make himchange or turn backas he believedthat once you can't love another human beingyou have no place in the world.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.

Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.

She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day…

Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day…

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty.

At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty.

Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>

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