Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.
A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
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.
Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.
Death always seems to be around me.
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
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