1. “Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”
~ Song: Straight for the Knife by Sia
This quote is about the human nature of selfishness and a need for survival. For example, bullies prey on the weaknesses and insecurities of others and utilize those insecurities as a means to destroy their self-esteem. When others feel too broken and weak to fight back then the bully sees that as strength. But it is not strength, it is the weaknesses of others that fuels the bully. In life, due to natural human selfishness and the desire to survive, typically if someone falls down either a person helps them up or they stands on top of them and to take their place. Some people do not strive to win on their own but use people as a stepping …show more content…
“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”
~ Song: Big Bad World by Kodaline
This quote addresses how life just kind of makes us chase our tales. In “Big Bad World” by Kodaline, it talks about how we go out into the world to follow our dreams so we can fulfill our life purpose, but it also says how life is full of what ifs and maybes and nothing is sure. So while people are chasing what ifs and maybe’s and combing through life for some way to answer the question of “Why am I here?” it is too late. By the time you realize that you are wasting away, it is too late. Life has moved on and you don’t really get an answer, just regret.
4. “I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your
~ Song: Straight for the Knife by Sia
This quote is about the human nature of selfishness and a need for survival. For example, bullies prey on the weaknesses and insecurities of others and utilize those insecurities as a means to destroy their self-esteem. When others feel too broken and weak to fight back then the bully sees that as strength. But it is not strength, it is the weaknesses of others that fuels the bully. In life, due to natural human selfishness and the desire to survive, typically if someone falls down either a person helps them up or they stands on top of them and to take their place. Some people do not strive to win on their own but use people as a stepping …show more content…
“Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”
~ Song: Big Bad World by Kodaline
This quote addresses how life just kind of makes us chase our tales. In “Big Bad World” by Kodaline, it talks about how we go out into the world to follow our dreams so we can fulfill our life purpose, but it also says how life is full of what ifs and maybes and nothing is sure. So while people are chasing what ifs and maybe’s and combing through life for some way to answer the question of “Why am I here?” it is too late. By the time you realize that you are wasting away, it is too late. Life has moved on and you don’t really get an answer, just regret.
4. “I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your