relief-and

Updated: May 22, 2025

To say nothing hackneyed about the blessed freedom from the cares and vexations of life which we cling to with such tenacity while we can, and which, when we have no longer the power to hold, we let go all at once, with probably a feeling of exquisite relief-and to take no account of this latter probable but totally undemonstrable felicity, it must be what boys call awfully jolly to be dead.

Ambrose Bierce - The Fiend's Delight