#40___ Discite mori
Death is the last
Secret implicit within you, the hidden, the deepest
Knowledge of all you will ever unfold
In this body of earth.
Kathleen Raine
Men prevent one another from being men
but in the great spaces of death
the winds of the afterwards kiss us into blossom of manhood.
DH Lawrence
Death is not ‘natural’. There was a time in the history of the earth when death did not exist–the time of primitive worms and amoebas. Instead of dying, the amoeba simply divides into two. It does not die, but its life is one of total stagnation. Death brought individuality into the world, and the struggle for existence. And this struggle brought evolution. If you place a gun against a man’s head, he suddenly knows very clearly that he wants to live. Death is the gun placed against the head of all living creatures, the goad of evolution.
Colin Wilson
The divine spirit survives man because death is the freedom of God just as life, modeled on death, is the test of the freedom of man.
Edmond Jabès
To philosophize is to learn how to die.
Montaigne
