It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.
Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
I think about death all the time. I think that's a good thing because we're all going to die, and the only thing we can control is how we are and what we're doing in the meantime.
To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
I really don't mind dying because I figure I haven't wasted this life.
I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.
I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.
The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.