Eugene Kennedy (1928–2015) American psychologist
Eugene Kennedy, cited in: Kathy Wagoner (2002) The Promise of Friendship. p. 284
“I was in that ultimate moment of terror that is the beginning of life. It is nothing. Simple, hideous nothing.”
Eddie Jessup
Altered States (1980)
Context: I was in that ultimate moment of terror that is the beginning of life. It is nothing. Simple, hideous nothing. The final truth of all things is that there is no final Truth. Truth is what's transitory. It's human life that is real.
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