Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
Pico IyerTags: wisdom suffering fear-of-death new-york-times
But you decide how you live your life in the meantime. You can hide fear. Or you can live life. - V
Gayle FormanTags: fearlessness fear-of-death live-in-the-here-and-now
When the fight ends you can afford to relax. That’s the worst part. Winner or loser you have again eyes to see around you. Blood, butchered bodies, bodies pierced by arrows. You stir inside, your heart tightens, the feeling of loss wells up. The sense of smell is the next thing to revive, adding a new dimension of pain. I closed the eyes of the last cadet, blue eyes, unseeing, his body, so small, almost a child, the youngest cadets were all gone, their faces surprised in death. Cold lips never able again to kiss a girl. It’s then that the emptiness swallows you and you mourn inside. Damn you, Scharon. No! Damn you, Travellers.
Florian ArmasTags: war loss-of-innocence fear-of-death
It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made the prospect of living itself seem all the more absurd; to extend this further, the notion of living one’s life for the purposes of pondering the absurdity of living was an even greater absurdity in and of itself, which thus, by reductio ad absurdum, rendered the fear of death a necessary function of life and any lack thereof, a trifling matter rooted in self-inflicted incoherence.
Ashim ShankerTags: paradox reductionism absurdity fear-of-unknown absurdism fear-of-death circular-reasoning incoherence reason-for-living
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