“Death was alluring, seductive, and Celia longed to die in the thrill of it over and over again.”
“If I am killed, I can die but once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.”
“Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.”
“Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing—a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.”
“It's true that when anyone dies, the other dead rise up abd die all over again.”
“What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?”