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The road to death is a long march beset with all
evils, and the heart fails little by little at each new terror, the bones rebel
at each step, the mind sets up its own bitter resistance and to what end? The
barriers sink one by one, and no covering of the eyes shuts out the landscape
of disaster, nor the sight of crimes committed there. - Katherine Anne Porter
There is something wonderful about a death, how
everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even
vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he
can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was
not important, not in the slightest. - Anne
Enright
Could the best and kindest of us who depart from
the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming
that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would
have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled. -
William Makepeace Thackeray
Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the
act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such
moments we were free – men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the
mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a
man. - Arthur Koestler
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