# Quote — Philip Roth, Everyman

> He went under feeling far from felled, anything but doomed, eager yet again to be fulfilled, but nonetheless, he never woke up. Cardiac arrest. He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

- Author: [Philip Roth](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth.md)
- Book: [Everyman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth/everyman.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_Roth#Everyman_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-roth/everyman/he-went-under

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