It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. read more

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its read more

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not read more

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it read more

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me.

I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Evil be to him who evil thinks.

Unto God, the Lord belong the issues of death.
(68:20).

Unto God, the Lord belong the issues of death.
(68:20).