Quotes
Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
p. 186
Being alive is just a brief technicality. (p. 167)
[Death is] the last big move of your life. The hearse is like the van, the pallbearers are your close friends, the only ones you could really ask to help you with a big move like that. And the casket is that great, perfect box you've been looking for your whole life. The only problem is once you find it, you're in it.
After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
A million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it.
Death has come in the pantry door: stands watching them, iron and patient, with a look that says try to tickle me.
Historical, religious, and existential treatises suggest that for some persons at some times, it is rational not to avoid physical death at all costs. Indeed the spark of humanity can maximize its essence by choosing an alternative that preserves the greatest dignity and some tranquility of mind.
Glenn used to say the reason you can’t really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, “I’ll be dead,” you’ve said the word I, and so you’re still alive inside the sentence. And that’s how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul — it was a consequence of grammar.
“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death.
We live and die and anything else is just delusion.
