“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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John Updike240
American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, an… 1932–2009Related quotes
Gary Gilmore (1940–1977) American murderer; the first person executed in the United States after a ten year hiatus; the last person …
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.”
John Donne book Holy Sonnets
No. 10, line 13
Holy Sonnets (1633)
Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander
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”
Lionel Johnson (1867–1902) English poet
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
