4 Quotes & Sayings By Teo Yi Han

Teo Yi Han is a Singaporean writer. He is the author of No Longer Silent , an account of his experiences as a prisoner in a Singaporean internment camp during the Japanese Occupation. He was born in Singapore and lived there for 48 years before moving to New York City in 2004. He is also a freelance journalist for publications such as the New York Times, Forbes Asia, and TIME Magazine .

Ne wonders what it is like to burn, staring at...
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Ne wonders what it is like to burn, staring at one’s ending right around the corner, and yet not knowing how the end will come, when one will be fully consumed by the void. Teo Yi Han
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What does the anticipation feel like? The sensation of staring into the void, the awareness of an end’s impending arrival? Burning and being extinguished simultaneously? Teo Yi Han
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What is it like to burn as the humans do? When one’s existence can be parcelled and measured in the units that the humans use, what was it? Time. Units of time. Ability to calculate, and live through countable units of time in motion. The physicality of time passing, when one’s lifespan is short enough to be able to tangibly experience the passage of time. Teo Yi Han