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

  • Isaac: Augustus Waters was a cocky son of a bitch. But we forgive him. Not because of his super-human good looks or because he only got 19 years when he should have gotten way more.

    Augustus Waters: 18 years, buddy.

    Isaac: Dude, come on, really? I'm assuming you have a little time, you interrupting bastard. You interrupt in the middle of my eulogy... You're supposed to be dead! But when the scientists of the future come to my house with robot eyes and they tell me to try them on, I will tell those scientists to piss off 'cause, Gus, I don't want to see a world without you in it. I know I don't want to see a world without Augustus Waters.

  • Hazel Grace Lancaster: Hello. My name is Hazel Grace Lancaster. And Augustus Waters was the star-crossed love of my life. Ours is an epic love story and I probably won't be able to get more than a sentence out without disappearing into a puddle of tears. Like all real love stories, ours will die with us, as it should. You know, I'd kind of hoped that he'd be the one eulogizing me, because there is really no one else... Yeah, no, um... I'm not gonna talk about our love story, 'cause I can't. So instead I'm gonna talk about math. I'm not a mathematician, but I do know this: There are infinite numbers between zero and one. There's point one, point one two, point one one two, and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger set of infinite numbers between zero and two or between zero and a million. Some infinities are simply bigger than other infinities. A writer that we used to like taught us that. You know, I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, do I want more days for Augustus Waters than what he got. But Gus, my love, I can not tell you how thankful I am, for our little infinity. You gave me a forever, within the numbered days. And for that I am... I am eternally grateful. I love you so much.

    Augustus Waters: I love you too.