Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
“Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.”
— Ellis Peters · Death
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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
“Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.”
— Ellis Peters · Death
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“Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.”
“Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.”
“Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)”
“Once, I remember, Father Abbot said that our purpose is justice, and with God lies the privilege of mercy. But even God, when he intends mercy, needs tools to his hand.”
“Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.”
“There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.”
“You have entered an abnormal, lonely, and unwelcome new world where you are nothing but an island of sadness.”
“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.”
“Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into the unified energy of the cosmos. The end of life, like birth, is a stagein a voyage, and deserves the compassion we accord to its beginnings. There is absolutely no virtue in prolonging the heartbeat and tremors of a body beyond its natural span...”
“I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?”
“Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.”
“Death is a part of Life, they are dancing together the dance of infinity in front of the gates of Time. We can live our dreams as we are dreaming our future. Time is the Endless Consciousness”