Death
draft MT — needs author review
Aphorisms and thoughts, not necessarily golden, about death:
Maybe we fear death because it is nameless.
09-02-2009
Death weighs exactly as much as life.
09-02-2009
Death is assigned to us, like a stone to a plum.
09-02-2009
Death is a surprise far worse than the one you’d least want.
09-02-2009
You have to earn your death — otherwise things can get rather grim.
09-02-2009
The stupidest thing is to die of fear of death.
09-02-2009
There’s no arguing with death, but you can try to negotiate an exchange.
09-02-2009
You can always count on death.
09-02-2009
You shouldn’t mock death — it may turn out to be standing right behind you.
09-02-2009
Don’t count on death’s friendship — in the end, it will kill you all the same.
09-02-2009
Death lives only thanks to our life, and without it, it would perish in suffering.
09-02-2009
The one thing death might fear is the last living being able to decide, on its own, the end of its own life — and with it, the very existence of death itself.
09-02-2009
Death is like a good friend — the moment your strength fails you, it’s the first to reach out its hand.
09-02-2009
You can despise death, say the worst things about it, but in the end you’ll still fall into its arms.
09-02-2009
Death is the same for everyone — the harder you defend yourself against it, the worse it is for you.
09-02-2009
Toying with death is just a way of drawing its attention.
09-02-2009
It isn’t death’s arrival you should fear, but life’s — that it might leave you.
09-02-2009
The end of life’s performance arrives together with the closing of the eyes — a shame we’re never allowed to read the review of the role we played.
30-04-2007
Death doesn’t look for you — it waits for you.
24-10-2008
From the moment of birth we move closer to death, like a falling brick to the ground. It’s all only a matter of distance.
24-10-2008