“Eternal nothingness is O. K. if you're dressed for it.”
Woody Allen book Getting Even
Getting Even (1971), My Philosophy
Variant: Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
“Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.”
— Darren Shan, book Sons of Destiny
Source: Sons of Destiny
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Minute by minute, day by dragging day,
In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways,
The smooth appeasing compromises of time,
Which are King Herod and King Herod's men,
Always and always. Life can be
Lost without vision but not lost by death,
Lost by not caring, willing, going on
Beyond the ragged edge of fortitude
To something more — something no man has ever seen.
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And all the people of this little town,
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