#at

For the movement was without scruples; she rolled towards her goal unconcernedly and deposed the corpses of the drowned in the windings of her course. Her course had many twists and windings; such was the law of her being. And whosoever could not follow her crooked course was washed on to the bank, for such was her law. The motives of the individual did not matter to her. His conscience did not matter to her, neither did she care what went on in his head and his heart. The Party knew only one crime: to swerve from the course laid out; and only one punishment: death. Death was no mystery in the movement; there was nothing exalted about it: it was the logical solution to political divergences ↗

— Koestler Arthur

#death

Amongst democratic nations men easily attain a certain equality of conditions: they can never attain the equality they desire. It perpetually retires from before them, yet without hiding itself from their sight, and in retiring draws them on. At every moment they think they are about to grasp it; it escapes at every moment from their hold. They are near enough to see its charms, but too far off to enjoy them; and before they have fully tasted its delights they die. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#equality #life #vanity #death

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most. ↗

— 118

#death-penalty #family #last-words #love #death

Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have---and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up. ↗

— James Belasco and Ralph Stayer Flight of the Buffalo

#inspirational #change

I'm happy to be your servant till the day that I die. ↗

— Merlin

#bbc #death #freindship #love #merlin

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome. ↗

— Chuang Chou

#philosophy #business

Morris Weissman [on the phone, discussing casting for his movie]: "What about Claudette Colbert? She's British, isn't she? She sounds British. Is she, like, affected or is she British? ↗

— Julian Fellowes

#actors #affectations #british #claudette-colbert #clichés

I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information." "And?" "The most valuable?" "People with information," I suggested. ↗

— Len Deighton

#information #valuable #business

Ölüm bütün gün odasından çıkmadı, kahvaltısını da, öğle yemeğini de, aksam yemeğini de hep odasında yedi. Geç vakitlere kadar televizyon izledi. Sonra ışığı söndürdü ve yatağına girdi. Uyumadı. Zira ölüm hiç uyumaz. ↗

— José Saramago

#ölüm #death

Someone once said that death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of us while we live. I could tell you who said it, but who the hell really cares. ↗

— One tree hill haley james scott

#depression #life #loss #one-tree-hill #pain