At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up.
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.
Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.
In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied - 'This should not happen to me.' It is for this reason that loss is the most difficult challenge one has to face as a human being.
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.