People can have a variety of concerns at the same time. Even those undergoing grave or traumatic experiences will acknowledge the need for lightness or even entertainment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.
No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
I realized so much of my life hasn't been in a well-lit room, and I realized the importance of documenting my experiences as a way to memorialize them.
Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.
Lots of children have had dark experiences, and if they're not having direct dark experiences, they are thinking about things and learning that life is fragile. You have to acknowledge that side of life to be able to then offer comfort and hope and goodwill.
I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.
The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.