Amani

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“A dream of form in days of thought'--who is it who says that? I forget; but it is what Dorian Gray has been to me.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“هل الحياة موت ؟ أم أن الموت حياة ؟ من سبق الآخر ، وأيهما الباب ، وأيهما السرداب ؟ وأيهما يفضي إلى الآخر ، حين جئنا إلى الحياة جئنا من الموت أم من الحياة ؟ وحين تركناها خلفنا عدنا إلى الموت أن إلى الحياة التي جئنا منها ؟”
― أيمن العتوم, ذائقة الموت

“Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it's often one of the great motivations for living. Some of us, in time, become so conscious of it that we live harder, more obstinately, with more fury. Some need its constant presence to even be aware of its antithesis. Others become so preoccupied with it that they go into the waiting room long before it has announced its arrival. We fear it, yet most of us fear more than anything that it may take someone other than ourselves. For the greatest fear of death is always that it will pass us by. And leave us there alone.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove