So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You have tasted of death now,” said the old man. “Is it good?” “It is good,” said Mossy. “It is better than life.”“No,” said the old man: “it is only more life. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
And this evening when I close my eyes against the darkness and think about her, I'll imagine iridescent wings fluttering, if only for a moment, against cloudless blue skies. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If I lie down on my bed I must be here,But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively about the city's dead. For even less money. It was a strange and inexplicable career move. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Walking thru this graveyard, I realize times were never really hard. We live, we love, we let it go. The world ain't changed me at all. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
How could a person have and do all these stupid things--clip coupons and double lock the front door--and then one day just cease to exist? Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The kiss. Oh, the kiss. What a perfect, unnerving, luscious kiss. He made me feel unhinged . . . like he could take me apart and put me back together again and again. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
When we can't understand the science behind something in this world, we make up mythological entities that we can relate to. We personify the forces of nature that mystify us, using our boundless imaginations to comfort us and make us feel like we have some control over these things that are much bigger than we are. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
