Nick Cave on the Fragility of Life
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
Maria Popova • Losing Love, Finding Love, and Living with the Fragility of It All
Even in the whorl of our own personal tragedies, when the cosmos appears at its most chaotic and impartial, I have come to see the world, in its complexity, rearranging itself toward meaning.
NICK CAVE • Subscribe to The Red Hand Files
But, one could ask, what about sorrow? We all know that there is sorrow in life. It comes to each of us in the loss of someone we love, in the loss of our power
Alexander Lowen • Joy: The Surrender to the Body and to Life (Compass)
