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A few quotes about Death
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:21 pm
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:21 pm
quote:
“When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.”
Cormac McCarthy, The Road
quote:
“How surely are the dead beyond death. Death is what the living carry with them. A state of dread, like some uncanny foretaste of a bitter memory. But the dead do not remember and nothingness is not a curse. Far from it.”
Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
I especially find the latter quote intriguing. There is a verb form of the word "death" (died), but that's not really an accurate explanation of death. Instead of saying "he died", the phrase should be "He has come to Death", or "Death has come to him"
This post was edited on 9/19/14 at 7:22 pm
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Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:22 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Everybody dies but not everybody lives
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:24 pm to Ping Pong
quote:
Everybody dies but not everybody lives
Someone gets it.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:25 pm to Ping Pong
quote:An unfortuante truth.
Everybody dies but not everybody lives
Here's another one, said by a Greek poet whose name I cannot remember:
I will not die, it is the world that will end.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I don't usually find quotes about death especially fascinating because they're purely speculation.
at the same time, that's the exact reason I find them so fascinating.
at the same time, that's the exact reason I find them so fascinating.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
Therefore that most frightful of evils, death, is nothing to us, seeing that when we exist death is not present, and when death is present we do not exist."
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:Twain
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
My favorite quote from the Road
So true it is
quote:
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
So true it is
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:29 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Whatever clever saying helps cloud you from the truth, which is that everything you are, everybody you know, and everything that is, will be utterly destroyed.
This post was edited on 9/19/14 at 7:30 pm
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:31 pm to genro
quote:
I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me... but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst... And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life... You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure. But don't worry... you will someday.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:33 pm to Stingray
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destroyed.
How is dying even remotely like being destroyed, just asking.
PS, other than the dead thing.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:34 pm to Ping Pong
quote:
Message Posted by Ping Pong Everybody dies but not everybody lives
If you are getting figurative, some people live forever through their actions and impact on the world.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:35 pm to genro
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But don't worry... you will someday.
Thanks for reminding me, Lester.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:35 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Death and taxes. Only sure things in life.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:36 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
"Don't waste your death on a half-assed life" - Nikki Sixx
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:40 pm to REG861
YOLO
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:42 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:
The Road
That is one seriously depressing book for anyone who has small children.
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:44 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
quote:SHITTIEST. BOOK. EVER.
The Road
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:47 pm to DevilDawgTiger
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." ... Oppenheimer
Posted on 9/19/14 at 7:50 pm to jrodLSUke
The dead only know one thing, it is better to be alive.
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