“People die when they are ready to die, for reasons that are their own. No person dies without a reason. You are not taught that, however, so people do not recognize their own reasons for dying, and they are not taught to recognize their own reasons for living — because you are told that life itself is an accident in a cosmic game of chance.”
Session 835
The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, (1981)
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Fragment 92, as translated by G.W.T. Patrick, trans.
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“Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.”
Tout existant naît sans raison, se prolonge par faiblesse et meurt par rencontre.
Nausea (1938)
“Truth cannot be taught but it is quickly recognized by the person ready to discover it.”
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Remarks by President Obama at the 70th Anniversary of D-Day at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Omaha Beach, Normandy, France at June 6, 2014 http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/06/06/remarks-president-obama-70th-anniversary-d-day-omaha-beach-normandy
2014
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VI : In the Depths of the Abyss
Context: I will not say that the more or less poetical and unphilosophical doctrines that I am about to set forth are those which make me live; but I will venture to say that it is my longing to live and to live for ever that inspires these doctrines within me. And if by means of them I succeed in strengthening and sustaining this same longing in another, perhaps when it is all but dead, then I shall have performed a man's work, and above all, I shall have lived. In a word, be it with reason or without reason or against reason, I am resolved not to die. And if, when at last I die out, I die altogether, then I shall not have died out of myself — that is, I shall not have yielded myself to death, but my human destiny shall have killed me. Unless I come to lose my head, or rather my heart, I will not abdicate from life — life will be wrested from me.
“for a woman, love is its own reason. "I love you because I love you.”
Source: Life Is Worth Living
“Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has its own reason, which is not reasonable.”
pg 129
Source: Identity (1998)
“Be assured I will die as I have lived, and that you will have no reason to blush for me.”
Letter to his wife, Matilda Tone (10 November 1798), quoted in T. W. Moody, R. B. McDowell and C. J. Woods (eds.), The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone, 1763–98, Volume III: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone, January 1797 to November 1798 (2007), p. 403
“For reasons of my own I take note of the way people act when they’re around mirrors.”
Source: Boy, Snow, Bird