Robin Williams Oh No, RIP Another Genius Lost!

A great loss - will definitely cry next time I watch Good Will Hunting.

"So if I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I’ll bet you can’t tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You’ve never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that. If I ask you about women, you’d probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can’t tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You’re a tough kid. And I’d ask you about war, you’d probably throw Shakespeare at me, right, “once more unto the breach dear friends.” But you’ve never been near one. You’ve never held your best friend’s head in your lap, watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I’d ask you about love, you’d probably quote me a sonnet. But you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn’t know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes, that the terms “visiting hours” don’t apply to you. You don’t know about real loss, ’cause it only occurs when you’ve loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much. And look at you… I don’t see an intelligent, confident man… I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you’re a genius Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my ******* life apart. You’re an orphan right? … You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally… I don’t give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can’t learn anything from you, I can’t read in some fuckin’ book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I’m fascinated. I’m in. But you don’t want to do that do you sport? You’re terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief."
 
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Westfailure":sm77yubm said:



Oh, if only you knew what that meant!!



I thought it was a wind up when i saw it posted online this morning, but after seeing sky news and bbc news articles about it, the sad realisation dawned on me!

Bad year for comedy this year, first Rik Mayall, now Robin Williams, truly sad times indeed, another big name from my childhood/life gone :cry:
 
Not to mention Good Morning Vietnam :) I always thought he was at his best doing the more serious stuff, but that's just my opinion :)

Alison
 
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He inspired, and continues to inspire me. Especially as Mr Keating, his character in "Dead Poets' Society"

I have to seize the day as I never know when my depression will return.
 
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grahame":1ij86au4 said:
He inspired, and continues to inspire me. Especially as Mr Keating, his character in "Dead Poets' Society"

I have to seize the day as I never know when my depression will return.

And if or when it does it's such a bitch, it should teach us that it can effect anyone at any time, regardless of wealth or position.
 
mork and mindy for me,,,,,depressed and skint ,,still the most selfish and cowardly thing anyone could really do .. feel sorry for those that he left behind their spend rest of their lives thinking what they could have done every day ask them selfs why , great actor so funny,,always watch re runs of shows and movies,, but his family have a hole that never be filled again,,,,
 
I disagree, so easy to say selfish and cowardly but people die all the time before their time so to speak and leave massive painful holes in the people left behind, if it's natural csuses they are brave, but when things are just so unbearable that the pain outweighs your ability to consider others you become selfish and cowardly, it takes a lot of courage to take that final step, I know I survived it, I still struggle to see how my families lives are better with crazy me than no me.

I feel for his family but I csn empathise with him.

Alison
 
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