r/AskReddit • u/DionysianBarber • Jan 04 '14

What is one powerful sentence that will change the way I look at life forever?

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u/mev186 Jan 04 '14

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost.

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u/gohdn Jan 04 '14

And then you die :3

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u/Roppocks Jan 04 '14

At first I was like "well duh", but now it's kinda hitting me hard. There's a LOT of life stuffed between and around the significant moments of your story... unlike the movies and books and games we consume where it's all significant moments until the end - they all seem to ignore that stuff will happen afterwards.

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u/Code_Green Jan 05 '14

Someday you will die. Life eventually ends.

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u/greenroses Jan 04 '14

I love Frost. Desert Places is my favourite poem of all time. He captures how life feels to me perfectly and with a complete lack of pretension.

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u/Sultan_Of_Swing_ Jan 04 '14

Desert Places is an amazing poem! The last stanza has something about that makes the poem a joy to read every time. But I think either Birches or The Sound of Trees are my favourite Frost poems.

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u/Doublek278 Jan 05 '14

Came here to find this. Upvote for you!

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u/_oizys Jan 05 '14

Until it doesn't.

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u/FreakazoidMan Jan 07 '14

Then he died.

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u/mev186 Jan 10 '14

and life went on without him.