The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never felt before; and now here it comes with conviction, almost panic. I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her or swallowed opium in large chunks. My mind has met their environment, here in the void. I understand perfectly. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
But to mourn, that's different. To mourn is to be eaten alive with homesickness for the person. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When I heard your organization was recording testimonies, I knew I had to come. She died in my arms, saying 'I don't want to die.' That is what death is like. It doesn't matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn't matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what I saw, we would never have war anymore. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You lived what anybody gets, Bernie. You got a lifetime. No more. No less. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>