"Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Mortality, Life, Death, Perspective, Time

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"Life is short, death is long, days are narrow, and years are wide."

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"Personally, I always wondered about authors and celebrities who loudly declared there was no God. It was usually when they were healthy and popular and being listened to by crowds. What happens, I wondered, in the quiet moments before death? By then, they have lost the stage, the world has moved on. If suddenly, in their last gasping moments, through fear, a vision, a late enlightenment, they change their minds about God, who would know?"

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"Let an illness, a duel, a runaway horse make us see death face to face, and how richly we should have enjoyed the life of pleasure, the travels in unknown lands, which are about to be snatched from us! And no sooner is the danger past than we resume once more the same dull life in which none of those delights existed for us."

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"Should we put out the light? And then put out the light. But once put out thy light, I cannot give it vital breath again. It needs must wither."

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"But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred."

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"Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great value, right? He could be research. A human textbook. Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me."

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"If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time."

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