/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12177103]

what are your favorite quotes on death? I don't care if it's from a poem, a novel, or even religious text, I would like to read it all the same.

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[Anonymous No.12177232]

>>12177103
>quotes
facebook is that way, anon

[Anonymous No.12177242]

>>12177103
DEATH IS LIGHT AS A FEATHER

DUTY AS HEAVY AS A MOUNTAIN

[Anonymous No.12177277]

EVEN THOUGH I WALK IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I WILL FEAR NO EVIL; THEY ROD AND THEY STAFF, THEY COMFORT ME

PSALM 23:4

[Anonymous No.12177295]

Yeah, it's cheesy and campy and all 'carpe diem,' but it's blunt and I like it.

>It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. (Marcus Aurelius)

[Anonymous No.12177308]

>>12177103
“Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.”

― Glaucus son of Hippolochus.
Homers Iliad scroll 6

[Anonymous No.12177360]

>>12177103
From Mexican poet Jaime Sabines:

Someone spoke to me all the days of my life, / into my ear, slowly, taking their time. / Said to me: live, live, live! / It was Death.

[Anonymous No.12177367]

>>12177360
Wow, deep

[Anonymous No.12177410]

>>12177103
Rosencrantz: Do you think Death could possibly be a boat?

Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is "not." Death isn't. Take my meaning? Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not be on a boat.

Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.

Guildenstern: No, no... What you've been is not on boats.

Well not favourite, but I just saw the movie and liked it

[Anonymous No.12177437]

“Death is nothing to us. When we exist, death is not; and when death exists, we are not. All sensation and consciousness ends with death and therefore in death there is neither pleasure nor pain. The fear of death arises from the belief that in death, there is awareness.”

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[Anonymous No.12177480]

>>12177295
I prefer the opposite from Ecclesiastes:

>So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

[Anonymous No.12177489]

stop dying

[Anonymous No.12177502]

>>12177489
stop living

[Anonymous No.12177505]

>>12177480
>misanthropy
Whoppee, how fun

[Anonymous No.12177514]

>>12177505
is self effacement and sobordination to god

[Anonymous No.12177551]

>>12177514
Can you explain this to me? I ask this unironically and without malice. I want to know the depth of that quote because I'm ignorant

[Anonymous No.12177587]

>>12177505
if anything that quote is philanthropic because it is concerned with human suffering, a real people hater would seek to maximise their pain.

[Anonymous No.12177668]

>>12177480
What an absolutely petty, small-minded observation. What kind of bald-face audacity does a person have to have to demand the world meet their expectations or accuse it of being not worth living in?

Everything before Jesus is literally about being a simple-minded pussy. I can't believe people actually choose to believe this shit.

[Anonymous No.12177685]

>>12177668
>Everything before Jesus is literally about being a simple-minded pussy.

[Anonymous No.12177688]

>>12177668
>disrespecting the holy script and the wisdom of king solomon like this

Yikes!

[Anonymous No.12177767]

Not on death exactly, but rather the lack of it. Spoken by Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita.

[Anonymous No.12178054]

>>12177505
>>12177668
Seething. Keep an eye on the time, don’t want to be late for your Tony Robbins seminar!

[Anonymous No.12178145]

What’s that passage that gets posted on this board every now and then, that discusses the fundamentally murderous disposition of nature? I think there is also a part where the pain of an animal being consumed is compared to the correspondingly less intense pleasure of the predator. And it isn’t Schopenhauer, but something who lived before him and who may have had a french name.

[Anonymous No.12178165]

>>12178145
DeMaistre

[Anonymous No.12178172]

HAMLET
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[Anonymous No.12178181]

>>12178145
>>12178165
I done went and found the quote as well. Metal as fuck.

[Anonymous No.12178185]

>>12178181
I done went and fucked up here it is

[Anonymous No.12178191]

>>12178165
Yes thank you very much.

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[Anonymous No.12179548]

>>12177189
what a shitquote

[Anonymous No.12179552]

>>12178185

[Anonymous No.12179777]

>>12177505
>misanthropy
total misread of the passage you tard goblin

[Anonymous No.12179782]

>>12178217
literally just pascal's wager

[Anonymous No.12180246]

>>12179782
Read it again.

[Anonymous No.12180362]

>>12177116
>Then I will sing my death song and die, like a warrior going home.

>Come out and fight! It is a good day to die! Thank you for making me a Human Being! Thank you for helpin' me to become a warrior! Thank you for my victories and for my defeats! Thank you for my vision, and the blindness in which I saw further! You make all things and direct them in their ways, O Grandfather. And now you have decided the Human Beings will soon walk a road that leads nowhere. I am gonna die now, unless death wants to fight. And I ask you for the last time to grant me my old power to make things happen.

[Anonymous No.12180382]

>>12178185
How is this guy a Christian if he is this edgy?

[Anonymous No.12180388]

>>12177767
More like this?

[Anonymous No.12181287]

>>12180388
Read the Gita and any literature of Advaita for similar sentiments.

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[Anonymous No.12181356]

>>12181339
based tommy being reasonable enough to state that opinions and personal experiences are just that

pretty rare

[Anonymous No.12181368]

>It is good to be a cynic – it is better to be a contented cat – and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world – we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death – the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed.
HP Lovecraft

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[Anonymous No.12181533]

Excuse me, miss death. I couldn’t help noticing you and I wondered. Would you care... to… join me for some time?... Just talking? It's been a bad night… real bad one and I can’t seem to find anyone… who… would share a moment with me without… shouting or… storming me with anything other than a simple moment of... peace? And I obviously wouldn’t approach you... in this state… were I not so unusually… intrigued. There… I bared my soul to you. May I?

[Anonymous No.12181594]

>>12181329
That's the pose of someone that is completely right

[Anonymous No.12181773]

>>12181356
Nothing he says is incompatible with procreation being wrong as a matter of fact.

[Anonymous No.12181816]

"What voices overheard, flinders of luminescent gods glimpsed among the wallpaper's stained foliage, candlestubs lit to rotate in the air over him, prefiguring the cigarette he or a friend must fall asleep someday smoking, thus to end among the flaming, secret salts held all those years by the insatiable stuffing of a mattress that could keep vestiges of every nightmare sweat, helpless overflowing bladder,viciously,tearfully consummated wet dream, like the memory bank to a computer of the lost?”

[Anonymous No.12182169]

>>12181594
Also of someone who thinks trouts can get pregnant.

[Anonymous No.12183390]

The point of "living like there is a god" in my opinion is just metaphorical of rebelling against the absurd, if he meant this in a literal sense then it would just be another form of philosophical suicide (according to Camus), religion. Furthermore he was agnostic and they still burn if the christian God exist so I can't agree the quote being "literally just pascal's wager".

[Anonymous No.12183417]

>>12179782
the comment above i fucked up and forgot to make it in reply to you (and misspelled exists)

[Anonymous No.12184334]

>>12177437
This

[Anonymous No.12184768]

>>12177480
You are misreading Ecclesiastes, this is only stated once in a fit of passion at the injustices of the world, Ecclesiastes is supportive of living in the rest of the book and closes on the note of the achievability of joyous living in the time that your Lord has given you under the sun.
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>>12177551
The other anon is alluding to the depth of humility found in Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes may well be the most philosophically skeptical book in the Bible. Ecclesiastes acknowledges how little he knows of God and the world and afterlife and makes know claims as to what God desires of us and where we will go when we die. Ecclesiastes acknowledges his own incredible smallness next to the incredible bigness of all that is, and he mourns the evils of the world, but overall throughout the book he seeks a joyous wisdom shareable by all despite the futility of attempts at absolute knowledge or attempts at knowing the will of God. Christianity, then, is a monstrous arrogance, at least in contemporary practice if not necessarily Biblically, because the common Christian makes hubristic statements about God all of the time: the common Christian is anti-humble because he claims to know exactly who God is and what God wants, but really any human being is far too small-minded and thus fundamentally incapable of understanding God or All.
>>12177668
You did not understand the passage any better than you understand your own religion. You are exactly the kind of arrogant dogmatist I was referring to: you do not efface yourself before God because you are foolish enough to think that you can understand him.

[Anonymous No.12184783]

>“A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.” - Spinoza

[Anonymous No.12184964]

One of few good things Marx ever said.

[Anonymous No.12185008]

>>12180382
What do you mean? Christians are edgy. Why else do you think everyone on /lit/ became Catholic?

[Anonymous No.12185016]

Life is little more than a fart, and farts are eternal, so what is death to us, we eternal farts?

[Anonymous No.12185045]

>>12181368
>It is good to be a cynic – it is better to be a contented niggerman
This gets the noggin joggin

[Anonymous No.12185047]

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

[Anonymous No.12185048]

>>12185016
based

[Anonymous No.12185094]

>>12177668
>What kind of bald-face audacity does a person have to have to demand the world meet their expectations or accuse it of being not worth living in?

Contempt of the world is essential to being anything at all.

[Anonymous No.12185520]

>>12185094
Grotesque
>>12184768
Beatific

[Anonymous No.12186242]

>>12184768
>The other anon is alluding to the depth of humility found in Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes may well be the most philosophically skeptical book in the Bible. Ecclesiastes acknowledges how little he knows of God and the world and afterlife and makes know claims as to what God desires of us and where we will go when we die. Ecclesiastes acknowledges his own incredible smallness next to the incredible bigness of all that is, and he mourns the evils of the world, but overall throughout the book he seeks a joyous wisdom shareable by all despite the futility of attempts at absolute knowledge or attempts at knowing the will of God.

This is Atheism.

[Anonymous No.12186510]

>His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

[Anonymous No.12186519]

>>12177116
>Demand that they respect yours

Yikes. How about 'keep your mind open to criticism'?

[Anonymous No.12186941]

>>12184768
>>12185520

Noah's servitude is precisely the reason why God flooded the world. There are many things subsumed by the story but the gist is:

Noah: If you told me to build a ship and etc. etc. because you're flooding the world then I would believe you and build it.

God: If you would believe me then I WOULD do it because you're an idiot.

[Anonymous No.12187325]

>>12186242
No, this is true belief. Stop confusing your politics with God.
>>12186941
It was my impression that the world was flooded most primarily due to the sinfulness of the world.

[Anonymous No.12187440]

>>12177437
This
Is retarded.

[Anonymous No.12187451]

>>12178054
Just neck yourself and be done with it

[Anonymous No.12187513]

All flesh waxeth old as a garment: for the covenant from the beginning is, Thou shalt die the death.

[Anonymous No.12187574]

>>12184964
Was that the same housekeeper he impregnated, or another one? Must be nice to have a house, and a housekeeper you can fuck, nice gifts from your friend Engels. Definitely the guy I want telling the working class what's what.

[Anonymous No.12187630]

>>12177103
>Master Lai said, "A child, obeying his father and mother, goes wherever he is told, east or west, south or north. And the yin and yang - how much more are they to a man than father or mother! Now that they have brought me to the verge of death, if I should refuse to obey them, how perverse I would be! What fault is it of theirs? The Great Clod burdens me with form, labors me with life, eases me in old age, and rests me in death. So if I think well of my life, for the same reason I must think well of my death. When a skilled smith is casting metal, if the metal should leap up and say, `I insist upon being made into a Mo-yeh!' 17 he would surely regard it as very inauspicious metal indeed. Now, having had the audacity to take on human form once, if I should say, `I don't want to be anything but a man! Nothing but a man!', the Creator would surely regard me as a most inauspicious sort of person. So now I think of heaven and earth as a great furnace, and the Creator as a skilled smith. Where could he send me that would not be all right? I will go off to sleep peacefully, and then with a start I will wake up."

[Anonymous No.12187643]

>>12177103
>Master Lai said, "A child, obeying his father and mother, goes wherever he is told, east or west, south or north. And the yin and yang - how much more are they to a man than father or mother! Now that they have brought me to the verge of death, if I should refuse to obey them, how perverse I would be! What fault is it of theirs? The Great Clod burdens me with form, labors me with life, eases me in old age, and rests me in death. So if I think well of my life, for the same reason I must think well of my death. When a skilled smith is casting metal, if the metal should leap up and say, `I insist upon being made into a Mo-yeh!' he would surely regard it as very inauspicious metal indeed. Now, having had the audacity to take on human form once, if I should say, `I don't want to be anything but a man! Nothing but a man!', the Creator would surely regard me as a most inauspicious sort of person. So now I think of heaven and earth as a great furnace, and the Creator as a skilled smith. Where could he send me that would not be all right? I will go off to sleep peacefully, and then with a start I will wake up."