In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?
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My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand.
For death begins with life's first breath
And life begins at touch of death.
For death begins with life's first breath
And life begins at touch of death.
Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker.
Why fear death when it is the only path to meet the Maker.
Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with read more
Some say the world will end in fire, some say ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the read more
The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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.
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
