“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”
Source: Self-Consciousness
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American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an… 1932–2009Related quotes
As quoted in The Book of Quotes (1979) by Barbara Rowes
“One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
No. 10, line 13
Holy Sonnets (1633)
Variant: You see, I tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
Source: Gregor the Overlander
“The second Death, that never dies,
That cannot die, when time is dead”
The Dark Angel (1895)
Context: p>I fight thee, in the Holy Name!
Yet, what thou dost, is what God saith:
Tempter! should I escape thy flame,
Thou wilt have helped my soul from Death:The second Death, that never dies,
That cannot die, when time is dead:
Live Death, wherein the lost soul cries,
Eternally uncomforted.</p
Source: Angels in America