“The moment of death is near, my Jesus, and all the world is abandoning me as a castaway and turning its face from me; on one side the entire universe has turned its back on me, and on the other death and I are face-to-face. Almighty Lord, how horrific it is to remain alone with death, how unutterably horrible to remain without God and a friend, without the world, without a companion, all alone with an enemy stronger than myself. One moment of loneliness, at the last gasp of that fellowship with death, covers with misery a whole age of delights as volcanic ash covers a flower garden. My sweetest Jesus, be Thou the third One in my company with death, so that thou and I remain. My Conqueror, conquer my horrible devourer, O only desired one, my Jesus, my Power and Strength.”

- St Nikolai Velimirovic, “Akathist to Jesus, Conqueror of Death”