Death Archives - Page 2 of 12 - The Final Paradox

Song of the Silent Land

Into the Silent Land!
Ah, who shall lead us thither?
Clouds in the evening sky…

Last words. – One will recall that the emperor Augustus, that frightful man who has…

Anxiety in the face of death is anxiety ‘in the face of’ that potentiality-for-Being which…

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To…

O life! what letts thee from a quicke decease?
O death! what drawes thee from…

To-night the little girl-nun died.
Her hands were laid
Across her breast; the last sun…

Riches I hold in light esteem,
And Love I laugh to scorn;
And lust of…

I can imagine someone copying out how Felix Arvers died. It was in a hospital.…

1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a…