Realization

[pjthompson]

Random quote of the day:

 

“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. Must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it. It never occurred to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there’s only one direction, and time is its only measure.”

—Rosencrantz, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Tom Stoppard)

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Interesting question. I knew about death from an early age because my grandfather died when I was three, but the first time I really thought about it was when I was five and a friend of mine had brain cancer.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

It is an interesting question. Like Rosencrantz, I can't remember that moment of epiphany, and yet I know it has to have been there somewhere.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

I love quotes that make you think!

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Those are the best kind.