#fr

In New York there isn't that weird palpable competitive thing where it's friendly but everyone isn't trying to top one another with jokes when you're just hanging around. ↗

— David Cross

#around #competitive #everyone #friendly #hanging

In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time. ↗

— Gary Shteyngart

#friends #friendship #life-lessons #waiting #death

Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#bear #beast #begets #come #constitutes

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#greek #illiterate #like #looking #man

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic. ↗

— George Crumb

#confused #described #frequently #hear #i

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#adult #adult life #am #being #come

الموت، أقسى الموت، أن تَنْحلَّ طينًا فى يد الخزّاف يعجنُهُ ويُبدئُهُ وينفخ فيه من أهوائِهِ وكأنه ما كان ذا شكلٍ ولا معنى. ↗

— محمد عفيفي مطر

#freedom-of-choiceom-of-choice #death

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather. ↗

— Javier Perez de Cuellar

#feather #feel #free #free man #i

I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#clothes #developer #front #i #joys

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me. ↗