Well the themes for me were and remain sex and love and grief and death - the things that make us and undo us, create and destroy, how we breed and disappear and the emotional context that surrounds these events.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the profound impact of fundamental human experiences on our existence.
In this quote, Thomas Lynch reflects on the central themes of life that shape our identities and experiences—sex, love, grief, and death. He suggests that these elements are intertwined, influencing how we live and ultimately how we meet our end, serving as both creators and destroyers of our emotional realities.
In practice
In a eulogy reflecting on a loved one's life.
Whatever's there to feel, feel it—the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own mortality. Get with someone you can trust with tears, with anger, and wonderment and utter silence.
The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.
You are awareness, disguised as a person.
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
I was so fortunate to play my club cricket at Moseley Ashfield. We had loads of Asians, white players, black players. You grow up from that knowing it just doesn't matter what religion or culture people are into, everyone is different.
The church is not a political power; it's not a party, but it's a moral power.
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.
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