The true terror Jonah thought the true mystery of life was not that we are all going to die but that we were all born that we were all once little babies like this unknowing and slowly reeling in the world gathering it loop by loop like a ball of string. The true terror was that we once didn't exist and then through no fault of our own we had to. Dan Chaon
Life and death issues are a universal concern. A person can learn about life by investigating the psychological and social aspects related to dying.
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Kilroy J. Oldster
Each stage of your lifeis like petals of a flower... unfolding and opening until it comes to full bloom... You will blossom and then you die... But know that this is not your ending.
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Summerlyn Guthrie
The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.
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Ted Dekker
What made the difference between choosing to die and deciding to live? Was it the weight of sadness that buckled them over and dragged them away from all sane, rational thoughts with an anchor of hopelessness so intense they just gave up fighting?
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Heidi R. Kling
When you die you will not bring any possessions, but you will be accompanied by the song up into heaven…
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Maria Herliana
More Quotes By Dan Chaon
Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.
You want a child because it is a link in the bridge that you are building between the past and the future, a cantilever that holds you, so that you are not alone.
He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at least that was the way it seemed at the time he had thought to himself, I am locked in, it was like one of those ghost...
I guess I always thought it would be bigger, when a terrible thing happened. Didn't you think so? Doesn't it seem like houses ought to be caving in, and lightning and thunder, and people tearing their hair in the street? I never - I never...
I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.
