If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
I got tired of feeling like Dracula. I wanted to see some daylight, and not just at six o’clock in the morning.
One has to seek out pleasurable sensations, in the absence of which blandness comes naturally. The upshot of this is that we must continually work at keeping suffering (including tedium) at bay, and we can do so only imperfectly. Dissatisfaction does and must pervade life. There are moments, perhaps even periods, of satisfaction, but they occur against a background of dissatisfied striving.
Strangers always ask me if I’m from Michigan. I say, Why, do I have a Detroit-shaped face, circa 1960? They all say yes, but I know they are lying, because I look more like Mackinac Island at the turn of the twentieth century.
Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.
We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.
Personally, I like a chocolate-covered sky. Dark, dark chocolate. People say it suits me. I do, however, try to enjoy every color I see – the whole spectrum. A billion or so flavors, none of them quite the same, and a sky to slowly suck on. It takes the edge off the stress. It helps me relax.
I am alone on this road strewn with bones and bordered by ruins! Angels have their brothers, and demons have their infernal companions. Yet I have but the sound of my scythe when it harvests, my whistling arrows, my galloping horse. Always the sound of the same wave eating away at the world
I can’t believe he didn’t have the dignity and presence of mind just to get drunk and pass out in some gutter, said Jace. I must say, I’m disappointed in the little fellow.
Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Why did he have to be so gorgeous? Why did he have to stand so close, and why did I still love him so much?
If you can overcome love, you can overcome fear. If you can overcome fear, you can overcome death.
Do you know why hurricanes have names instead of numbers? To keep the killing personal. No one cares about a bunch of people killed by a number. ‘200 Dead as Number Three Slams Ashore’ is not nearly as interesting a headline as ‘Charlie kills 200.’ Death is much more satisfying and entertaining if you personalize it.Me, I’m still waitin’ for Hurricane Ed. Old Ed wouldn’t hurt ya, would he? Sounds kinda friendly. ‘Hell no, we ain’t evacuatin’. Ed’s comin’!
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard. And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out forever.
Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four. The clouds were high and the swallows would be here for another month or so before they left for the south before they returned again next summer.
In the last moment of his life, he turned his fading flame of life into a huge fire that enveloped the world. I’ve never laughed more than on that day…!! I’ve never cried more than on that day… I’ve never drank more either..!! He was our captain… and he was a magnificent man…!!!
And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me.
Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I’d rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I’d rather have a no, then nothing. I’d forgotten that about myself.
I’ve studied History all my life, and the one thing I’ve learned for certain I’d that you can’t stand against it. It’s like a river in a flood, and we are just swept along in it. The big people might try to swim against the current for a time, but little people like us, the best we can hope for is to keep our heads above the water for as long as we can.
Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.
What will I be doing in twenty years’ time? I’ll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?
Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?
Honestly, just all the love and respect from the fans, that’s always the biggest thing that puts a smile on my face.
IT’S A SWORD, said the Hogfather. THEY’RE NOT /MEANT/ TO BE SAFE.
I might have known,” said Eeyore. “After all, one can’t complain. I have my friends. Somebody spoke to me only yesterday. And was it last week or the week before that Rabbit bumped into me and said ‘Bother!’. The Social Round. Always something going on.
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one’s door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
Suicide is an attack on society–an attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair.
HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.
Money is important today…but if you want time…stop managing time andstart prioritizing attention
As we get older, we get better at choosing in ways that will make us happy. We do a better job at picking activities that make us happy, and at spending time with people who make us happy. We’re also better at letting things go.
I g-g-guess…I’m dead? she heard her own voice call out, strangely high-pitched and thin.For a long time, she heard nothing else. And then:Hi, Dead. I’m Dan.
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
There’s no point in wishing. We can’t change anything about the past. We can only remember. We can only move forward.
Nox didn’t say a word. He waited, counting the seconds in his mind. Sometimes you counted bullets and sometimes you counted time. Either one could kill you.
True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.
My comedy is different every time I do it. I don’t know what the hell I’m doing.
I don’t think so, said the captain. Their ship is clearly outfitted with weapons systems that it did not have when it left Terrene over 600 years ago. And they are pointed directly at us.
The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.
Accidental sex. He made it sound like I fell down, and there just happened to be an erection in the way.
There is not a day or night but a doe offers her life for her kittens, or some honest captain of Owsla his life for his Chief Rabbit’s. Sometimes it is taken, sometimes it is not. But there is no bargain, for here, what is, is what must be.
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
Death cuts off possibilities. Even if they were possibilities you never meant to act on, it feels differentwhen they’re gone.
Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?
Hay tiempopara sangrar por la heriday tambiénpara observar en el espejola cicatriz.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
Anyway, I’m sort of glad they’ve got the atomic bomb invented. If there’s ever another war, I’m going to sit right the hell on top of it. I’ll volunteer for it, I swear to God I will.
The old man slowly raised himself from the piano stool, fixed those cheerful blue eyes piercingly and at the same time with unimaginable friendliness upon him, and said: Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. There is none easier. That is a fine thing. I hope you and I shall remain friends. Perhaps you too will learn how to make fugues, Joseph.