I find (a coffin) a handsome piece of furniture, even empty; when someone is lying in it, then, in my eyes, it is positively subli...me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a strange, strange fate, and now, as I stand face to face with death I feel just as if they were going to kill a boy. For I ...feel like a boy--and my hands so free from blood and my heart always so compassionate and pitiful that I cannot comprehend how anyone wants to hang me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual... that I am confused confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No stout Lesson showed how to chat with death. We brought... No brass fortissimo, among our talents, To holler down the lions in this air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with noth...ing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great desire of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid skepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee, Ease me with death by bidding me got too.... Oh, if it have, let my word work on me, And a just office on a murderer do. Except it be too late to kill me so, Being double dead: going, and bidding go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. O...ver all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen..., we would reinstate it from time to time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We fi...nd him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe.... He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of necessities. Yet the tinkering and playing, and the fascination with the nonessential, were a chief source of the inventiveness which enabled man to prevail over better-equipped and more-purposeful animals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »