Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going.
Interpretation
Life is filled with challenges and disappointments, but perseverance is key to experiencing its greatest moments.
In this quote, Sigourney Weaver reflects on the struggles that define much of human existence, emphasizing that life is often burdened by failure, loss, and heartache. However, she underscores the importance of resilience and persistence, suggesting that despite the many hardships one faces, it is essential to keep pushing forward in order to eventually reach moments of fulfillment and joy.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges, this quote could be used to inspire the audience to persist through difficulties.
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Once I put that wig on, I didn't say an intelligent thing for four months. My voice went up. I walked differently. I'd ask incredibly stupid questions.
Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.
Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.
You pay for good days by then having bad days. You pay for joy with pain.
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
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