Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it ends. Or did not think he needed to. Because for a goodly part of his life he worked in a graveyard. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Modern romance, like Greek tragedy, celebrates the mystery of dismemberment, which is life in time. The happy ending is justly scorned as a misrepresentation; for the world, as we know it, as we have seen it, yields but one ending: death, disintegration, dismemberment, and the crucifixion of our heart with the passing of the forms that we have loved. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The spirit who inhabits her animates us all. Destroy the host, you destroy the power. The young die first; the old wither slowly; the eldest perhaps would go last. But she is the Queen of the Damned, and the Damned can't live without her. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You smile upon your friend to-day,To-day his ills are over;You hearken to the lover's say,And happy is the lover.'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never:I shall have lived a little whileBefore I die for ever. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Now every mortal has painand sweat is constant,but if there is anything dearer than being alive,it's dark to me.We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing(whatever it is) that glitters on the earth--we call it life. We know no other.The underworld's a blankand all the rest just fantasy. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Of all the things I've ever done, perhaps none was more difficult than turning away from my beautiful girl and walking away, leaving her there, never to look back. But my friend Tom, my ever-faithful good friend Tom said, pointing down the hall away from Cec's room, 'Life's that way. Let's go home.'And so we did. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>