“Bear Gerhardt: There's gonna be a reckoning one day, brother. All souls are called to account for their actions. In the end, we all get what we deserve. Dodd Gerhardt: You keep telling yourself that.”Tagged: Reckoning, Karma, Souls, last judgment
“She was a true gloom, my mother. We used to eat in the dark. For a laugh, I wrote on her tombstone, 'Here lies Barbara Milligan, happy till the end.' Me, on the other hand, I'm an optimist.”Tagged: gloom, bummer, depressing, Tombstone, Epitaph
“Noreen Vanderslice: Camus says knowing we're all gonna die makes life a joke. Ed Blomquist: So what, you just—you just give up? Noreen Vanderslice: You could kill yourself, get it over with.”Tagged: Albert Camus, Suicide, Life, Existentialism, Give Up
“Mike Milligan: There's a man. Ben Schmidt: What—what man? Mike Milligan: Just a man. He works in a factory. One day, the boss gets it in his mind that this man is stealing from him. So, every night at the gate, the guards search his wheelbarrow. But they never find anything. Ben Schmidt: Pat him…”Tagged: parables, Stories, Fables, Wheelbarrows, Occam's Razor
“Hotel clerk: Room 203. Very nice room, very nice. It's got air conditioning. You can smell the ocean. Gloria Burgle: There's a view? Hotel clerk: No, there's a smell. At low tide.”Tagged: hotels, Smells, Ocean