Quotes by Dowell, Coleman

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity eithe >>

Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming. >>

It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of some >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies >>

A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of >>

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. >>

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Dowell, Coleman