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"I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it"

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Grief is trying to talk its way into coherence here, and it can only manage fragments. Moore starts with a soft hedge - "I think" - then doubles down on it, not because he lacks conviction, but because conviction feels rude in the face of death. The sentence keeps restarting ("people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing") like someone pacing a room, searching for the least offensive verb. "Passing" is the euphemism we reach for when "dying" feels too blunt, and his repetition underlines the cultural reflex to sand down tragedy into something speakable.

The aside - "I don't say a great pace" - is doing two jobs at once. It avoids sensationalism (no one wants to sound like they're chasing headlines off a funeral), but it also admits what the body already knows: the rhythm has changed. "It seems like people are dropping" punctures the careful language with a more physical, almost street-level bluntness. That shift matters. It captures the whiplash of living in a moment where celebrity deaths, pandemic-era losses, and constant algorithmic memorializing collapse distance. You may not know the person, but you know about the person, immediately, repeatedly.

When he lands on "consciousness" and "sensitivity", he’s naming a secondary phenomenon: not just loss, but a heightened awareness of loss as a public weather system. The intent isn’t to offer a thesis; it’s to register a mood. In a media culture that turns mortality into trending content, Moore is describing how mourning becomes ambient - a shared background hum that makes everyone a little more tender, and a little more raw.

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Moore, Shemar. (2026, January 16). I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-because-people-are-passing-people-that-119056/

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Moore, Shemar. "I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-because-people-are-passing-people-that-119056/.

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"I think because people are passing - people that we are aware of are passing at - I don't say a great pace, but it seems like people are dropping, and I think it's just making - there's a consciousness and there's sensitivity to it." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-because-people-are-passing-people-that-119056/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Shemar Moore (born April 20, 1970) is a Actor from USA.

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