“The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.”
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
“The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.”
“The tragedy in a man’s life is what dies inside of him while he lives.”
“Life and death lived inside each other. That's what occured to me. Death was inside all of us, waiting for warmer nights, a compromised system, a beetle, as in the now dying black timber on the mountains.”