“Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where.”
Aureng-Zebe (1676), Act IV, scene i.
“Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
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Context: We have usurped many of the powers we once ascribed to God.
Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world — of all living things.
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Source: Norwegian Wood