She couldn’t tell where his pupils ended and the irises began; looking into those eyes was like looking into a well where children had drowned.
In the end you can’t always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go.
The time is right for electric cars – in fact the time is critical.
They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.
Cyrano: The leaves—Roxane: What color—Perfect Venetian red! Look at them fall.Cyrano: Yes—they know how to die. A little wayFrom the branch to the earth, a little fearOf mingling with the common dust—and yetThey go down gracefully—a fall that seemsLike flying!
Fie had never expected to die quiet.Young, maybe. On the end of a sword, also likely. And doing what she did best: picking a fight over something easier left alone.
But you said so yourself,the poor lass will die of it…Do you really want her to die?’Yes, I’d rather she died than have a bad life.
Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.
Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
Life is like a sandwich!
Birth as one slice,
and death as the other.
What you put in-between
the slices is up to you.
Is your sandwich tasty or sour?
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For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, – still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, – pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.
I thought you died, but writing this, I’m not sure you did.
I never quite understood the question that says, is the glass half empty or half full? What’s the difference? Eventually it’ll end up empty and in the trash.
Time moves with or without you. It’s up to you how you use it. It’s up to you how you let people affect how you use it.
We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory – it’s theirs.
I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.
Live your life in such a way that you’ll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.
I became a firefighter because I wanted to save people. But I should have been more specific. I should have named names.
She wanted to create her future, not enter a state already shaped to her outline.
You don’t know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can’t know every me, and I can’t know every you.
Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.
Death comes in a flash, and that’s the truth of it, the person’s gone in less than 24 frames of film.
I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s never engage in a fight you’re sure to lose. On the other hand, never let anyone who has insulted you get away with it. Bide your time and strike back when you’re in a position of strength—even if you no longer need to strike back.
Second half of the year starts NOW July 1st with the next 6 months being MORE important than the last 6 months. I Your Name promise to do all that I can to achieve my Goal . I will not sit on a corner wait I will seek my opportunity. I promise to go after my Goal with passion knowing that the clock is ticking… Sign and date
I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.
They say death and taxes are the only things that are inevitable. The truth is, you can not pay your taxes. I’ve done it, and there’s consequences, but it can be done. Death you’re not going to get out of, and you kind of got to deal with it.
I don’t think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
I’m always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
The birth of a legend is the death of a hero. Every man wishes to die a hero. A hero’s death is glorious!
Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule.
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are
going.
People look for morals in fiction because there has always been a confusion between fiction and philosophy.
My story will be over soon. But it’s not something to be sad about. Remembering those who went ahead. Remembering those who will follow after. And someday, we will meet all those people again, out beyond the horizon
No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth’s wings. – Garraty’s thoughts on death and dying, The Long walk
Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.
What do you want to do with your life, then?” is often the question I’m asked.To be honest, I don’t know. I really don’t.Mainly because I don’t see myself living long enough for that to make much of a difference.
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
How do I know you’ll keep your word? asked Coraline.I swear it, said the other mother. I swear it on my own mother’s grave.Does she have a grave? asked Coraline.Oh yes, said the other mother. I put her in there myself. And when I found her trying to crawl out, I put her back.
Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.
My library is segregated into philosophy, history, general reading, travel, my own books… and only three cookbooks.
That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not.
If the radiance of a thousand sunsWere to burst at once into the skyThat would be like the splendour of the Mighty One…I am become Death,The shatterer of worlds.[Quoted from the Bhagavad Gita after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.]
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can’t avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.’s lover. Now it’s like an empty house.
Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.
Okay, seriously, I dont know if this is true or not, but I heard people who use profanity are trying to compensate for their lack of you know… size -Tuck
I have no horror of death, and place no value on any god. Cease therefore. For I come ready to die; and first I bring you these gifts. (Mezentius)
Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction.