The Face of Death Quotes

“Arf,' said Igor. Had he been able to say something other than arf, he would have articulated the opinion that Kierkegaard had been right to proclaim the perspicuity of God and man, and the unaccountability of the correlation between the two. He would also have pointed out that, as Heidegger stated, man is an evanescent being, aware, through the opalescence of his animus, of the certitude of his own death, and therefore, the only way to get up in the morning and face your breakfast cereal with added vitamins and low fat milk, is in full cognisance of le néant, until you've worked the whole thing out for yourself. Still, ever the mute hunchback's place to be considered an idiot.”
― Douglas Lindsay, The Face of Death

“As late night drifted into the early hours of the morning, there was a strange collective in the bar of the Highland Inn, some time after the Reverend Wilson had been despatched from his grumbling miserable misery of miseries to an even more miserable eternal misery of miseries.”
― Douglas Lindsay, The Face of Death