But tonight with every breath
I can feel my death
as sure as I can feel my knees
-Ani DiFranco, "Modulation"

"I found myself heavily weighed down by a sense of being tired of living and scared of dying."
-Augustine, Confessions

"You seek the happy life in the region of death; it is not there. How can there be a happy life when there is not even life?"
-Augustine, Confessions

"I doubted everything...in the fluctuating state of total suspense of judgment."
-Augustine, Confessions

"I had no confidence, and had lost hope that truth could be found."
-Augustine, Confessions

"Let all that perish! Let us set aside these vain and empty ambitions. Let us concentrate ourselves exclusively on the investigation of the truth. Life is a misery, death is uncertain. It may suddenly carry us off. In what state shall we depart this life? Where are we to learn the things we have neglected here? And must we not rather pay for this negligence with punishments? What if death itself will cut off and end all anxiety by annihilating the mind?"
-Augustine, Confessions

"I did not postpone the fact that everyday I was dying within myself. I longed for the happy life, but was afraid of the palce where it has its seat, and fled from it at the same time as I was seeking for it."
-Augustine, Confessions