“I prayed ceaselessly for him, a desperate human prayer. Not for his life, no one could take that cup from him, but for the strength to endure the unendurable.”
Patti Smith
more infosource: Just Kids (New York: Ecco, 2010), 275.
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category: courage, endurance, illness, prayer, sickness, strength
medium: memoir
“I used to have much confidence in my ability to ward off death. But death is as strong as ever, and I am a much weaker resister.”
Saul Bellow
more infosource: letter to Herbert McCloskey, dated December 16, 1997, in Saul Bellow: Letters (New York: Viking, 2010), 538–39.
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category: aging, death, sickness
medium: letter
“How am I? I’m dying. Everybody is, but…the process has accelerated on me, so I’m looking for ways to try to die more like you.”
Christopher Hitchens
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