Funeral Contemplation Gifts

"He wanted to take his defense attorney with him so he could work out a deal at the other end."

At the end of each day, Gary had approximately 7 minutes of free time – which left him feeling very vulnerable.

"Ooh, ooh, I know this koan! I got it! Pick me! Pick me!"

'Hey! Contemplate your own navel!'

Maximilian could see far away places,but he never told anyone.

"The overthinker"

"Geez, from way up here it almost looks like there’s hope for humanity."

"I've switched my energy provider, and I switched my broadband provider. Now I want to switch my misery provider."

"In hindsight, we shouldn't have had him cremated."

"I could catch a bicyclist, well maybe not a bicyclist, but I could catch a jogger, definitely."

Zenemies.

"Wait... what was it I came up here for?"

'Are you not thinking what I'm not thinking?'

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! … Emerson" "Good boy!"

"Lately, I've been trying to spend less time staring at the glowing orb."

"After searching for the sun all night, it finally dawned on me..."

Thought bubble mirrors the cloud in the sky.

'It's normal -- Enlightenment freaks a lot of people out.'

"How come I can't remember what I forget, but I always remember that I forgot something!"

"These brisk fall afternoons remind me of Chekhov, which reminds me of Putin, then Trump, the alt-right, facism, nuclear weapons ... let's go home."

'Hey! - why bicker all evening when we could be watching a film about ideological genocide.'

'Sometimes I think about getting away from all this and get a job as a cab driver in New York city...'

"Is it just me, or do these sculptural forms of light and shadow make you think about the ephemeral nature of life, the spirituality of the moment eclipsing our futile quest for cheese?"

"Exactly what is this 'nothing' I've been hearing so much about?"

Soren Kierkegaard

"I got my wife a book on decluttering and the first thing to go was me."

"Gazing at stars really makes you realise the insignificance of your co-workers."

'Do you ever wonder about this whole 'money' thing?'

"Autumn already? O.K., I'll come down."

'Have you ever imagined a world without stupid hypothetical questions?'

"No, wait. What if the cop character is the murderer, and the mobster guy is completely innocent?"

"Behold my perfect window of existence, when I'm neither trying to wake up nor falling asleep."

"I don't feel ready to commit to a cacoon, either, but do you ever worry we'll wake up one day and be forty and still caterpillars?"

"Just think of it, Charles – yesterday I was a caterpillar, and tomorrow I'll be dead."