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Anthology
Did Adam have a Bellybutton?: And other tough questions about the Bible (2000)
“We've all got the disease - the disease of being finite. Death is the basis of all horror.”
on mortality
“All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.”
Source: The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 6
“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 328.
Why I Am an Agnostic (1896)
Context: What can be more frightful than a world at-war? Every leaf a battle-field—every flower a Golgotha—in every drop of water pursuit, capture and death. Under every piece of bark, life lying in wait for life. On every blade of grass, something that kills,—something that suffers. Everywhere the strong living on the weak—the superior on the inferior. Everywhere the weak, the insignificant, living on the strong—the inferior on the superior—the highest food for the lowest—man sacrificed for the sake of microbes. Murder universal. Everywhere pain, disease and death—death that does not wait for bent forms and gray hairs, but clutches babes and happy youths. Death that takes the mother from her helpless, dimpled child—death that fills the world with grief and tears. How can the orthodox Christian explain these things?
Source: Shadow of the Hegemon
“Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.”
Caesar, Act II, scene ii.
Source: Julius Caesar (1599)
“Is there life before death? — that is the question!”
Irrelevance
One Minute Wisdom (1989)
