The essence of the Hebrew Bible transmitted by Christianity is separation: between life and death nature and God good and evil man and woman and the holy and the profane.
People think celebrities don't have to worry about human things like sickness and death and rent. It's like you've traveled to this Land of Celebrity this other country. They want you to tell about what you saw.
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.
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural death is the obscene mystery the ultimate affront the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
Death in itself is nothing but we fear to be we know not what we know not where.
See I have set before you this day life and good death and evil... I have set before you life and death blessing and curse therefore choose life.
Families survive one way or another. You have a tie a connection that exists long after death through many lifetimes.
People praise virtue but they hate it they run away from it. It freezes you to death and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
Everything one does in life even love occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
There are only three events in a man's life birth life and death he is not conscious of being born he dies in pain and he forgets to live.