Love and death: heartbreaking, but also empowering

Pearlie 2022-04-19 09:01:27

Death is inevitable. Oblivion is inevitable. Life is finite, squeezed awkwardly between the two dates, your birthdate and the date on your death certificate.

Oblivion is inevitable. There is a time for everything and there will be an ultimate demise when Sun explodes and the earth gets stormed over and swallowed. It feels like you exhale your last sigh, but it tapers away right into a void, dies down and will never be echoed back.

Life is finite.

But even among that remorsefully short period of time, you can get a chance of Forever, whether it be a moment, an image, a song, or a person.

Or a symbol, a metaphor, or you may call it—a star. Anything that empowers you and helps answer that big question : what do I live for?

Life is short, obstructions are unexpected, death is impeding, and oblivion is fated. We can't choose if we get hurt in this world or not, but we do have some say in who to hurt us. We can't have many admirers, but we can have at least one. That one and only, who will always remember you, even long after the world ceases to do so.

And that one person is gonna make all the difference.

Live bravely.
Heartbreaking and empowering, you don't get these two packed in one movie very often. So enjoy it.

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The Fault in Our Stars quotes

  • Augustus Waters: Your hands are so cold.

    Hazel Grace Lancaster: Oh, they're not so much cold as just under-oxygenated.

    Augustus Waters: Hazel Grace?

    Hazel Grace Lancaster: Hm?

    Augustus Waters: I love it when you talk medical to me.

  • Isaac: She said she wanted to break up with me before the surgery, 'cause she couldn't handle it. I'm about to lose my eyesight and SHE can't handle it. I kept saying "always" to her, you know, like always. And she kept talking over me and not saying it back, and that was... It was like I was gone already, you know? And...

    Hazel Grace Lancaster: Yeah, sometimes people don't understand the promises that they're making when they make them.

    Isaac: I know, but... I just feel like such a loser, and I still have her necklace.

    Hazel Grace Lancaster: Take it off.

    Augustus Waters: Dude, take that off!

    [Isaac pulls it off and breaks the chain]

    Hazel Grace Lancaster: Yeah!

    [Isaac throws it away]

    Augustus Waters: Here we go, man. Here we go.

    Isaac: I just wanna kick something.

    [stands up and starts kicking the TV]

    Augustus Waters: Don't hit that, don't hit that! Dude. Uh...

    [he finds a pillow and gives it to Isaac]

    Augustus Waters: Hit this.

    Isaac: Sorry.

    [starts hitting the pillow violently]