The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting even in death.
A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.
Good music comes out of people playing together knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
And as long as you're subject to birth and death you'll never attain enlightenment.
If what you do is being threatened as a profession that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.
If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
For death is not the worst but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
Here I am trying to live or rather I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
In every death a busy world comes to an end.