“Men dislike being awakened from their death in life.”
“The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.”
“In working with the wounded at Gallipoli, the lead character comments, “Perhaps life was the nightmare and death the awakening.”
“People don’t dislike change, they dislike being changed.”
“The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us.”
“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”