“Death suddenly seemed unimportant and life seemed everything”
“But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.”
“It seemed to me that I was suddenly in the presence of incosolable, unavoidable, and immense pain.The thought of that death hunted me and turned everything else into nothing.”
“I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.”
“She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant.”
“The shortness of life, I keep saying, makes everything seem pointless when I think about the longness of death.”