“Family trips of my childhood always began with a prayer. I suppose when one goes on vacation, one is courting death in some fashion, tying the morgue tags onto one’s suitcase. But then, too, vacations are respites from death, from thoughts of death. I have sometimes wondered why friends under medical death sentences have undertaken arduous trips or undertaken arduous labors. To put some distance between themselves and death—the obvious answer.”
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography (2013)
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“One death is as good as another, if death is what you are courting.”
Source: …And All the Stars a Stage (1971; [serialized in 1960]), Chapter 14 (p. 186)
Darauf sagt ein Diplomat vom Quai d’Orsay: «Der Krieg? Ich kann das nicht so schrecklich finden! Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik!»
"Französischer Witz" (1932).
The Wheel of Fortune (1984), Part 1: Robert
A Better Hope for the Soul, The Watchtower magazine, 8/1 1996.
“I have lost friends, some by death… others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
Ine weiz, wie jener werden sol;
dirre tôt der tuot mir wol.
solte diu wunneclîche Isôt
iemer alsus sî mîn tôt,
sô wolte ich gerne werben
umbe ein êweclîchez sterben.
Source: Tristan, Line 12497
