Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
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.
We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon.
Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
Death is a very important part 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.
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