The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- We yearn to recover a primal bliss known only before birth, which we can only fully access in death.
- In plain terms
- We crave a lost happiness from the womb that we can only find in death.
- What can you take from it?
- Humans crave a lost primal bliss found only in death.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What lost feeling do you miss most?
- Is happiness found in memory or death?
Another view
This view frames death as a return rather than an end, which is controversial.
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