The Savage God
Apr. 28th, 2013 09:00 am“It will generally be found that as soon as the terrors of life reach the point where they outweigh the terrors of death, a man will put an end to his life. But the terrors of death offer considerable resistance; they stand like a sentinel at the gate leading out of this world. Perhaps there is no man alive who would not have already put an end to his life, if this end had been of a purely negative character, a sudden stoppage of existence. There is something positive about it; it is the destruction of the body; and a man shrinks from that, because his body is the manifestation of the will to live.”
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Ah, but that dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of...
But one of the consequences of losing faith, or perhaps never having any, is that any notions of the afterlife also lose their terrors.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Ah, but that dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns, puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of...
But one of the consequences of losing faith, or perhaps never having any, is that any notions of the afterlife also lose their terrors.