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. – Susan Sontag
Im not supposed to be able to speak clearly, and decipher whats going on in the media. Im supposed to be the typical amateur whos 22 and scared to death and cant believe he won the Olympics. – Carl Lewis
I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand. – Donald Cargill
Drop, dropin our sleep, upon the heartsorrow falls, memorys pain,and to us, though against our very will,even in our own despite,comes wisdomby the awful grace of God. – Aeschylus