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10318534 No.10318534 [Reply] [Original]

What are some good books to help someone cope with the fact that they'll never be immortal?

Goethe's Faust was of some help, but I need some more.

>> No.10318552

take the breadpill

>> No.10318555

Epic of Gilgamesh.

>> No.10318574

>>10318555
Unironically this.

>> No.10318616

>>10318534
The Iliad. You would have known that if you'd started with the Greeks.

>> No.10318647

>>10318555
this
the digits know

>> No.10318650

>>10318647
Kek smiles on thee

>> No.10318659

>>10318534
The Corpus Hermeticum
Manly P. Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Plato's Phaedo
Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous
Ouspensky's The Fourth Way

"The path to immortality is hard, and only a few find it. The rest await the Great Day when the wheels of the universe shall be stopped and the immortal sparks shall escape from the sheaths of substance. Woe unto those who wait, for they must return again, unconscious and unknowing, to the seed-ground of the stars, and await a new beginning." ~ Hermes Trismegistus

>> No.10318668

>>10318616
I would say the opposite

>> No.10318685

>>10318534
Epicurus

>> No.10318697

>>10318668
Why? Seems to me that OP's problem is just Achilles' problem, and Achilles got over it.

>> No.10319077

When the Seagulls cry.
Please don't stone me.