We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the human tendency to ignore or avoid the knowledge of impending doom.
This quote expresses the paradox of awareness and denial; it suggests that while we may have a sense of the challenges or catastrophes that lie ahead, we often choose to ignore or suppress that realization. The vivid imagery of a falling piano emphasizes the absurdity and inevitability of certain unfortunate events, akin to how people sometimes navigate life with a blend of apprehension and denial about their consequences.
In practice
During a lecture on human psychology, this quote might be used to illustrate how people cope with anxiety about the future.
I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability β the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.
Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.
I loved you because there was no other place for me to go. We were married because we did not know what else to do with each other. You never knew me, nothing about me, what died inside me, what lived invisibly.
All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is.
I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.
Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.
there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.
It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. _x000D_ _x000D_ It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, _x000D_ _x000D_ deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.
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