Then on your tombstone, where you only get a little bit of space to sum up your life, some wax-faced creep chisels a set of meaningless numbers instead of poetry or a secret love or the name of your favorite candy. In the end, all you get is a few words. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s overwhelmingly depressing to me, and sometimes it makes me feel kinship and forgiveness. We’ve all got the same ending to the story. The way we make that story more elaborate, I got to respect. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”) Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
How we keep these dead souls in our hearts. Each one of us carries within himself his necropolis. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
War is being reminded that you are completely at the mercy of death at every moment, without the illusion that you are not. Without the distractions that make life worth living. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Most people don't want to die, but they don't want to live either. I am speaking about men now as much as women. They look for a third way, but there is no third way. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,But young men think it is, and we were young. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
And then she moved from shock to grief the way she might enter another room. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory? Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>