“Death was a beast with no teeth. He did not fear death.”
“He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death.In place of death there was light.”
“Arcadio found the formality of death rediculous. Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”
“Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.”
“It was then as he discovered that death could elude him that the fear of death returned.”
“How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.”