Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
Interpretation
Death is an inevitable part of life that affects everyone, regardless of their character.
This quote by Ellis Peters reflects on the universal truth that every human being, whether they are celebrated as heroes or seen as cowards, ultimately faces death. It emphasizes the idea that mortality is the commonality shared by all life forms and suggests that our response to this reality shapes our existence and actions throughout life.
In practice
In a eulogy where one reflects on the life and legacy of a departed loved one.
My people have a country of their own to go to if they choose... Africa... but, this America belongs to them just as much as it does to any of the white race... in some ways even more so, because they gave the sweat of their brow and their blood in slavery so that many parts of America could become prosperous and recognized in the world.
somehow one must love the world without being worldly.
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Five mysteries hold the keys to the unseen: the act of love, and the birth of a baby, and the contemplation of great art, and being in the presence of death or disaster, and hearing the human voice lifted in song.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
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