But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this....

“ But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible. ”

Jhumpa Lahiri

From : Unaccustomed Earth