“The difference between s*x and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.” ― Woody Allen Woody Allen’s quote is uncomfortable, but it exposes a strange truth about society. S*x is an act full of judgement… performance pressure… anxiety… fear of comparison. People are mocked for it, judged for it, measured by it. But death? Death is solitary. No one stands over your shoulder and laughs at how you did it. So this dark humour points to something real: many of our shame-based emotions are not natural — they are inherited from the culture around us. We carry embarrassment for the act that creates life, yet we accept the end of life without shame. This contrast forces one to question whether our social reactions are logical… or simply learned.
Quotations and wise words from forever.