To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.
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As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must read more
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
Do not seek death. Death will find you.
But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Do not seek death. Death will find you.
But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
