Life is the desert, life the solitude; Death joins us to the great majority.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Life feels isolated and barren but death connects us to all who have lived.
- In plain terms
- Life is lonely but death unites us with others.
- What can you take from it?
- Death brings connection after isolation.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you view solitude?
- What comforts you about death?
Another view
It romanticizes death as a solution.
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