“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”
Dissent - as proof of life
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” Dissent - as proof of life
Many shades of the departed are occupied solely in licking the waves of the river of death because it comes from out direction and still has the salty taste of our seas.
Then the river rears up in disgust, flows the opposite way, and washes the dead back into life. They however are happy, sing songs of thanksgiving, and stroke the indignant stream.
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Lie down with dogs and wake up with fleas.
-Seneca (maybe)
"When death finds you, may it find you alive."
-African proverb
-African proverb
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There is no end to this march of human thought, as it transcends even death itself. The moment one node dies, many others will learn from the ideas of that node, and those thoughts form the foundation of further ideas to come. This is why the words of dead poets, politicians, and philosophers grow increasingly influential as time runs its course.
Lawrence Yeo • The Omnipresence of Work - More To That
Ajinkya Wadhwa added
Life is a stream: an ongoing conversation of nature with itself, contradictory and opinionated and dangerous. And the stream is made up of births and deaths, of things that come into existence and pass away. But there is always life, and things feeding on life.
Neil Gaiman • The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory
― Richard Powers, The Overstory
The Overstory Quotes by Richard Powers
Rob Tourtelot and added
“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
The loss of my son and the future of this channel
Kossak added
To be passing is to live; to remain and continue is to die. “
Alan W. Watts • The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
