If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted read more

If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.

Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice.

Due to technical difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel will be off until further notice.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

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.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, read more

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than anything I have ever done; it is a far, far, better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual.

Death and taxes are both certain... but death isn't annual.

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.