“But what I want to say is this: this will happen to everybody at some point - a deconstruction of the known self. It may not necessarily be a death, but there will be some kind of devastation. We see it happen to people all the time: a marriage breakdown, or a transgression that has a devastating effect on a persons, life, or health issues, or a betrayal, or a public shaming, or a separation, or someone loses their kids, or whatever it is. And it shatters them completely, into one million pieces, and it seems like there is no coming back. It’s over. But in time they put themselves together piece by piece. And the thing is, when they do that, they often find that they are a different person, a changed, more complete, more realized, more clearly drawn person. I think that’s what it is to live, really – to die in a way, and to be reborn. And sometimes it can happen many times over, that complex re-ordering of ourselves.”
Quote by Nick Cave
Work
Faith, Hope and Carnage
Browse quotes and source details for this work. more
Author
You May Also Like
“If you despise increase, you are a strange personality in the society”
Source: The Wicked King
Source: The Wicked King
Source: The Wicked King
Source: The Cruel Prince
“Humans are like mice,' Balekin went on. 'Dead before they learn how to be canny.”
Source: How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
“A woman attracts men by her charm and holds them by their vices.”
Source: Theatre
Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
“Nurture your relationships and all good things will come to you.”
Source: Don't Think Of a Blue Ball
