Lieb Liebchen, leg ‘s Händchen aufs Herze mein; -Ach, hörst du, wie’s pochet im Kämmerlein,Da hauset ein Zimmermann schlimm und arg,Der zimmert mir einen Totensarg.Es hämmert und klopfet bei Tag und bei Nacht;Es hat mich schon längst um den Schlaf gebracht.Ach! sputet Euch, Meister Zimmermann,Damit ich balde schlafen kann. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Never trust a man who teaches about death but yet had no real experience at all about it. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Whilst the wolflets bayed, A grave was made, And then with the strokes of a silver spade, It was filled to make a mound. And for two cold days and three long nights, The father tended that holy plot; And stayed by where his wife was laid, In the grave within the ground. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
And yet," said Poirot, "suppose an accident-""Ah, no, my friend-""From your point of view it would be regrettable, I agree. But nevertheless let us just for one moment suppose it. Then, perhaps, all these here are linked together - by death. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that at times they were all but unbearable now assert themselves in the most appealing way, and what was least to your liking the day before yesterday becomes in the limousine behind the hearse a cause not only for sympathetic amusement but for admiration Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>