#post

The morgue is a Victorian update of a system established by Alfred the Great. It's the place where certain deaths are resolved - those where the cause is unclear or is the result of some intended or accidental violence. The bodies are almost always victims in some way - of crime, suicides and car crashes, but also victims of loneliness. It's where you go if you die alone in your flat and your body lies undisturbed for days. It's where you go if no one knew you were dying and no GP attended your final hours. It's where you go if no loved one held your hand as you slipped away. In one way or another, then, all the people who pass through this room are the people who die screaming. ↗

— Stephen Armstrong

#death #loneliness #morgue #post-mortem #death

Prayer… panacea for some, placebo to others. I thought of it as an epidural administered through the soul to anesthetize the mind. ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#atheism #augmented-reality #inspirational-life #posthumanism #transcendentalism

Instead of cursing the darkness, try to fix the lamp. ↗

— Muhammad Adb Al-Rahman Al-Arifi

#postive-thinking #life

So my life is a point-counterpoint, a kind of fugue, and a falling away–and everything winds up being lost to me, and everything falls into oblivion, or into the hands of the other man. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#postmodernism #life

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. ↗

— Judith Lewis Herman

#post-traumatic-stress #psychotherapy #taboo #trauma #truth

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. ↗

— David F. Wells

#culture #media #morality #personality #postmodernism

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#only #our #posterity #riches #squander

I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches. ↗

— Sergei Bubka

#bought #coaches #costs #equipment #i

Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a play, a way of celebrating a good week or month. Now it feels as if it's all punctuation. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#celebrating #celebrity #entertainment #feels #film

Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience. ↗

— Eric Lefkofsky

#blind #companies #currently #experience #get