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Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life
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- It’s tempting to imagine that ending or at least easing the struggle with time might also make you happy, most or all of the time. But I’ve no reason to believe that’s true. Our finite lives are filled with all the painful problems of finitude, from overfilled inboxes to death, and confronting them doesn’t stop them from feeling like problems—or no... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Alex Wittenberg added
Murray says we are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.
from White Noise by Don DeLillo
Eli added
Life is fierce and difficult. There is no life we can live without being subject to grief, loss and heartbreak. Half of every conversation is mediated through disappearance. Thus, there is every reason to want to retreat from life, to carry torches that illuminate only our own view, to make enemies of life and of others, to hate what we cannot unde
... See morefrom David Whyte by David Whyte
rob hardy added
- I have realised that it is a moral error to compulsively fixate on the world's troubles, to elevate ‘the crack in everything’ and not acknowledge ‘the light getting in.’ Our pleasures and joys are not a negation of humanity's suffering, a betrayal of those we have lost, or the denial of our various griefs. They are the bright, necessary, God-filled... See more
from Reader
Frank Brown added
- The only real question about all this finitude is whether we’re willing to confront it or not. And this, for Heidegger, is the central challenge of human existence: since finitude defines our lives, he argues that living a truly authentic life—becoming fully human—means facing up to that fact. We must live out our lives, to whatever extent we can, ... See more
from Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Alex Wittenberg added
In contrast, the improvisational spirit lives inside that gap, and it can be surprisingly full of ingenuity and joy even when the situation is dire. As something we share with our nonhuman brethren, the capacity to form new responses is how you know you’re alive, today, here. So when my mum says, “whatever happens, happens,” what I hear is not resi
... See morefrom Dear Future, Here’s the One Lesson I Want to Pass on to You by Jenny Odell
Keely Adler added
- That is all we have, this moment with the world. It will not last, because nothing lasts. Entropy, mortality, extinction: the entire plan of the universe consists of losing, and no matter how much we find along the way, life amounts to a reverse savings account in which we are eventually robbed of everything. Our dreams and plans and jobs and knees... See more
from Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All by Maria Popova
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