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121. “We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.”
Orson Scott Card
Death, Life Choices, Self Awareness, Mortality, Responsibility, Existential Reflection
125. “For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours. The passion they have aroused lives after them, easy to transmute or to transfer, but well-nigh impossible to destroy.” E.M. Forster Legacy, Memory Eternal, Emotional Transcendence, Mortality, Passion, Reflection
126. “Death destroys man, but the idea of death saves him – that is the best account of it that has been yet given. Squalor and tragedy can beckon to all that is great in us; and strengthen the wings of love.” E.M. Forster Death Paradox, Tragedy Inspiration, Love Strength, Human Resilience, Philosophical Insight, Mortality
129. “Do not be deceived: I am suffering less, because I have less strength in me to suffer. At your age, you have faith in life; it is a privilege of youth to believe and to hope. But old men see death more clearly.” Alexandre Dumas Youth’s Faith, Old Men’s Clarity, Suffering Strength, Mortality, Hope, Wisdom
150. “I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn’t believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.” Sylvia Plath Existentialism, Belief, Mortality, Suffering, Duality, Reflection
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121. “We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.”
Orson Scott Card Death, Life Choices, Self Awareness, Mortality, Responsibility, Existential Reflection
125. “For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours. The passion they have aroused lives after them, easy to transmute or to transfer, but well-nigh impossible to destroy.”
E.M. Forster Legacy, Memory Eternal, Emotional Transcendence, Mortality, Passion, Reflection
126. “Death destroys man, but the idea of death saves him – that is the best account of it that has been yet given. Squalor and tragedy can beckon to all that is great in us; and strengthen the wings of love.”
E.M. Forster Death Paradox, Tragedy Inspiration, Love Strength, Human Resilience, Philosophical Insight, Mortality
129. “Do not be deceived: I am suffering less, because I have less strength in me to suffer. At your age, you have faith in life; it is a privilege of youth to believe and to hope. But old men see death more clearly.”
Alexandre Dumas Youth’s Faith, Old Men’s Clarity, Suffering Strength, Mortality, Hope, Wisdom
150. “I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn’t believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.”
Sylvia Plath Existentialism, Belief, Mortality, Suffering, Duality, Reflection
