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“You know we are doomed anyway, right? Beg your pardon? No matter what we do, what we archive, what status we have, how much material wealth we acquire, we all die. Some of us in terrible pain whilst we do so… Life is inherently cruel, there is no other way of putting it.”

Death Life Lessons Dying Discussion Decay Doomed Status Cruel Life And Dying

Book:2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

Source: 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

“Well, faced with our mortality, we create stories of immortality. We strive to leave behind echoes of ourselves, reaching for infinity, eternity, on a finite, terminally ill planet!”

Writing Stories Death Dying Creating Eternity Immortality Mortality Infinity Finite

Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“Our lives, reduced to mere hours, minutes, seconds, how cruel.”

Death Hours Minutes Dying Cruelty Mortality Seconds Lives Living And Dying Curel

Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“Aren’t you tried of this loneliness?” “But deep down aren’t we all lonely? Remember, we come alone into this world and die all alone. In the end it is yourself, and yourself only, against the world! And you always lose. No matter what! That is the sad truth…”

Inspirational Truth Death Loneliness Lonely Tired Alone Lose

Book:We Tragic Few

Source: We Tragic Few

“Can I propose a toast to the fragility of life and the weight of mortality?”

Death Drink Drinking Alcohol Fragility Existential Crisis Toast Fragility Of Life Existentalism Weight Of Mortality

Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“We all have to die one day, we might as well die with some obscure meaning attached to it.”

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Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“The sun sets and it is another reminder of the sheer fragility of time, a reminder that death and decay are always closer than we think”

Death Time Sunset Decay Fragility Peru Fragility Of Life Sun Setting Moment In Time

Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“Death is what gives our lives urgency, an awareness that time isn't infinite.”

Death Time Awareness Infinite Existentialism Urgency Existential Crisis

Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

“Before my heart stops beating all I can do is admire the beauty of the seemly endless mortal stars that are decorating the night sky above me, illuminating my path to my next destination.”

Death Night Heaven Stars Beauty Dying Destination Illuminating Mortal Nightsky

Book:Peruvian Nights

Source: Peruvian Nights

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