Make me pun with everything
December 9, 2023 11:00 PM Subscribe
I'm starting on a new song, one about feeling frustration with questions unanswered, situations unresolved, in life. Who said what about this?
Who: Religious figures, philosophers, comedians, plumbers, ...
What: I expect mostly "that's just the way it is" and would like to hear all the forms of that plus whatever else.
Who: Religious figures, philosophers, comedians, plumbers, ...
What: I expect mostly "that's just the way it is" and would like to hear all the forms of that plus whatever else.
Heraclitus “The road up and the road down are one and the same.”
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:32 AM on December 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by GenjiandProust at 4:32 AM on December 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
Folk adages:
"It is what it is"
"That's the way the cookie crumbles"
Arts/media quotes:
"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown"
"You can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather"
"Que sera, sera"
posted by SaltySalticid at 5:51 AM on December 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
"It is what it is"
"That's the way the cookie crumbles"
Arts/media quotes:
"Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown"
"You can plan a pretty picnic but you can't predict the weather"
"Que sera, sera"
posted by SaltySalticid at 5:51 AM on December 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
John Prine said, "That's the way that the world goes 'round, You're up one day, the next you're down. It's a half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown."
posted by knile at 7:38 AM on December 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by knile at 7:38 AM on December 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be). Could be attributed to Jay Livingston and Ray Evans or to Doris Day, depending on what works better for what you’re writing.
posted by Winnie the Proust at 8:03 AM on December 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Winnie the Proust at 8:03 AM on December 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" (Laozi, often misattributed to Confucius) -- but where are you f_cking off to?
"Live. Life. Lather. Rinse. Repeat"
“No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” And those shared tokens in our consensual hallucination mean nothing now, neither the same water nor the same watercourse nor the same man, meaningless because of this truth-and-untruth together.
Asking for a friend, if the tree falls in a forest without an observer and it made no sound/disturbed no observer, did the tree actually fall or is it only the simplest explanation for what we see later that it fell despite doing so unobserved?
posted by k3ninho at 8:51 AM on December 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
"Live. Life. Lather. Rinse. Repeat"
“No man ever steps in the same river twice. For it's not the same river and he's not the same man.” And those shared tokens in our consensual hallucination mean nothing now, neither the same water nor the same watercourse nor the same man, meaningless because of this truth-and-untruth together.
Asking for a friend, if the tree falls in a forest without an observer and it made no sound/disturbed no observer, did the tree actually fall or is it only the simplest explanation for what we see later that it fell despite doing so unobserved?
posted by k3ninho at 8:51 AM on December 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
You’ll never get anywhere because you have to get halfway first. — Zeno of Elea
posted by Winnie the Proust at 9:04 AM on December 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Winnie the Proust at 9:04 AM on December 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
Best answer: Rilke, in Letters to a Young Poet:
I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.posted by invokeuse at 9:51 AM on December 10, 2023 [3 favorites]
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posted by amtho at 11:56 PM on December 9, 2023 [1 favorite]