Eventually we're all just memories, right? At least until the last person we knew dies. Until the places we went fall down or get bulldozed over. After that, we're nothing. It's like we were never really here at all. Just a black screen of nothing.
- The Hellblazer 14, November 2017 (DC Comics, 2017)
- The Hellblazer 14, November 2017 (DC Comics, 2017)
“I feel I am lost. Equivalent to dead. It is terrifying. I no longer feel like making the effort. I think of no one. The rest is over. You as well. I am alone.”
— Marguerite Duras, from “No More; C’est Tout.
— Marguerite Duras, from “No More; C’est Tout.
“There is absolutely no eternal necessity which decrees that every guilt will be atoned and paid for, just as it is a delusion that everything is guilt. It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have deranged mankind!”
—Daybreak, §563 (edited).
—Daybreak, §563 (edited).
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
— John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Fear, after all, is our real enemy. Fear is taking over our world. Fear is being used as a tool of manipulation in our society. Itʼs how politicians peddle policy and how Madison Avenue sells us things that we donʼt need. Think about it. Fear that weʼre going to be attacked, fear that there are communists lurking around every corner, fear that some little Caribbean country that doesnʼt believe in our way of life poses a threat to us. Fear that black culture may take over the world. Fear of Elvis Presleyʼs hips. Well, maybe that one is a real fear. Fear that our bad breath might ruin our friendships… Fear of growing old and being alone.