Distrust, and darkness, of a future state, Make poor Mankind so fearful of their Fate. Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
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Melville on Faith and Death
Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
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Christine Rosen on Death and Our Sense of Self
It's a sign of the hollowness of our sense of self that we seek to cheat death, that we seek to cheat aging.