I have done my best to get along in your world and now you want to kill me, and I look at you, and then I say to myself, you want to kill me? Ha! I'm already dead, have been all my life. I've spent twenty-three years in tombs that you built.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker feels already dead and imprisoned by society, not fearing execution.
- In plain terms
- I feel dead inside because you built this life for me.
- What can you take from it?
- Inner death can exist before physical death.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is life possible when feeling dead?
- Who builds your prison?
Another view
Embracing death as a state undermines value of life.
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