Friday, August 19, 2005

Do you know what is really dreadful about death?

I really liked this answer:

Just consider how terrible the day of your death will be.

Others will go on speaking, and you will not be able to argue back.

This quote is from a nineteenth century Bengali poem by Ram Mohun Roy. I found it in Amartya Sen's Argumentative Indian (p.33).

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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous7:20 PM, August 19, 2005

    Nice to see this quote here. I was reading this part the day before yesterday, and jotted down this quote too!

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  2. Abi11:09 PM, August 23, 2005

    Here is another death related quote (via email from reader Anant). Woody Allen said:

    I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

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  3. Anonymous8:09 PM, November 23, 2005

    I really appreciate people like you who take their chance in such an excellent way to give an impression on certain topics. Thanks for having me here.

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