To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. (Frank Herbert)

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

Frank Herbert

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