Sentences with phrase «constant fear of death»

But I now understand that a constant fear of death is the surest way to ruin my own blessed life.

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There are those for whom the fear of death is the constant overtone of life.

Hence Rabbit's constant remembrance of things past: his fading stardom as a high school basketball hero in Mt. Judge, Pennsylvania; his youthful marriage to the store - clerk Janice Springer; their many sexual felicities and infidelities; the deaths that each so horribly caused in their own house; their moral enmeshment in the lives of their friends and families, especially their elderly parents and their own son Nelson; Rabbit's jobs as a typesetter and car dealer, and now Janice's belated career in real estate; their financial prosperity during the boom of the «70s when they bought vacation homes in Florida and the Poconos; now their fear of economic ruin amidst the coming Depression.

It's a landscape out of Ecclesiastes, in a sense, defined by its «essential fragility, its constant, unstoppable movement toward death,» as King puts it — a landscape where time is a thief and death is a mystery and where the hope of a resurrection is weaker than the fear of the dark.

Already, there is so much that parents fear — news reports are a near - constant feed drip of horribleness happening to children — but the one thing new moms and dads fear most when their baby is sleeping is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS.

Whilst with the lord of the rings we felt the weight of Frodo Baggins journey, the death and the constant unsettling fear and impending doom round every corner.

The frequent conversations among the soldiers reveal the emotional stress they go through when faced with the day - to - day uncertainties of war, constant peril, and the fear of death.

This is important because both Black Lives Matter and Never Again ask at least one clear question in common: Is it possible to go about a daily life without constant fear of violence and death?