Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
James M. BarrieRead
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that death can be seen as a significant and profound experience rather than merely an end.
In this quote, James M. Barrie reframes the concept of death, presenting it as an adventurous transition rather than a fearful conclusion. It invites reflection on the perspectives we hold regarding mortality, suggesting that rather than a finality, death can lead to new and unexplored realms, much like an adventure waiting to be experienced. This helps in alleviating the anxiety associated with death, positing it as a natural and transformative part of lifeβs journey.
In practice
In a eulogy, when celebrating a person's life and choices.
Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.
It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.
But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
It was that white cloak that soiled me, not the other way around.
Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.
The victimization of children is nowhere forbidden; what is forbidden is to write about it.
People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in The Kingdom of This World.
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
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