What are your favorite quotes regarding life, death, etc. ?

[ve.nin]

Especially interested in nihilistic and pessimistic ones

 

[Oneness]

I've always had this quote in my signature:

"When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events."

– Alan Watts

 

[Darkover]

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That's love

If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man rather have so much sympathy with the coming generation as to spare it the burden of existence, or at any rate not take it upon himself to impose that burden upon it in cold blood?

 

[ve.nin]

I've always had this quote in my signature:

"When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and the snow comes, is some kind of defeat, something which we should hold out against. No. Winter is part of the natural course of events."

– Alan Watts

What a brilliant gif you have

 

[SVEN]

Life is the meanest of gifts, and costs nothing to refuse.

 

[ve.nin]

 

[figurehead]

Especially interested in nihilistic and pessimistic ones

"Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the center which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death." Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway. Dalloway upon hearing about the suicide of Septimus Smith.

 

[ve.nin]

 

[todeswunsch]

Blessed is the flower that grows in the night,
Blessed the poison that helps you to die.
Blessed the guidance of the loyal friend,
Blessed is he, who brings the end

From multiple Sopor Aeternus songs

 

[loopdaloop]

 

[Sprite_Geist]

"Life is like a movie. If you've sat through more than half of it, and it sucked every second so far, chances are it's not gonna great right at the very end and make it all worthwhile. No one should blame you for walking out early." - Doug Stanhope.

"When people commit suicide no one ever understands. You know what I mean? People commit suicide and people go: ''I don't understand why'', and I go: "You don't?" What, do you live in a cotton-candy house or something? What the fuck? You don't know about life? How it only disappoints and... gets worse and worse until it ends in a catastrophe? What the fuck?" - Norman Gene Macdonald.

 

[tiger b]

The goal of all life is death - S. Freud

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves - B Hicks

There is life and there is death and everything between is a mere drama - Kit1 hehehe

 

[Kit1]

Not sure whether this is anyone's quote or I made it up myself as I have had it on my mind for years;

There is life and there is death and everything between is a mere drama.

 

[FuneralCry]

Sleep is good, death is better but of course the best thing would to have been never born at all", Heinrich Heine.

 

[Henryk]

When spring comes,

If I'm already dead,

The flowers will bloom the same way

And the trees will be no less green than last spring.

Reality does not need me.

I feel enormous joy

Thinking that my death doesn't matter at all.

If I know that tomorrow I would die

And spring was the day after tomorrow,

I would die happy, because it was the day after tomorrow.

If this is her time, when would she come if not in her time?

I like everything to be real and everything to be right;

And I like it because that's how it would be, even if I didn't like it.

So if I die now, I'll die happy,

Because everything is real and everything is right.

You can say Latin over my coffin if you want.

If you want, you can dance and sing around him.

I have no options for when I can no longer have preferences.

Whatever it is, whenever it is, it will be what it is.

Alberto Caeiro/ Fernando Pessoa

 

[Kundalini Guy]

"The best side to choose is none." - Me

 

[Latubmen]

Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) from True detective:

I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution.
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Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

 

[Somethingiswaddling]

"There are no bargains between lion and men. I will kill you and eat you raw" - Madeline Miller's Song of Achilles

 

[ve.nin]

Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) from True detective:

I think human consciousness, is a tragic misstep in evolution.
<... skipped ...>
Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight - brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

RUST IS GOD

I watched season 1 for like 8 times

it's just perfect
Btw @Latubmen

"Life is like a movie. If you've sat through more than half of it, and it sucked every second so far, chances are it's not gonna great right at the very end and make it all worthwhile. No one should blame you for walking out early." - Doug Stanhope.

"When people commit suicide no one ever understands. You know what I mean? People commit suicide and people go: ''I don't understand why'', and I go: "You don't?" What, do you live in a cotton-candy house or something? What the fuck? You don't know about life? How it only disappoints and... gets worse and worse until it ends in a catastrophe? What the fuck?" - Norman Gene Macdonald.

Fucking shit


David Foster Wallace on suicide

 

[Intoxicated]

"Chemists don't die, they just stop reacting."

 

[TooConscious]

Reading Schopenhauer has eased my loneliness in my youth in many occasions. Bukowski - although his lifestyle may be a stretch for some, he's wise about pain in the context of fighting the given materialistic lifestyle were taught to strive for.