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.
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
The Church is a terrible engine of oppression, especially as concerns woman
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
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