Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
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.
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.
The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.
Why can't death - if we must have it - be always glorious, as in 'The Iliad?'
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
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