#d

The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#life-and-death #realization #death

Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. No soldier's paid to kick against His powers. We laughed, — knowing that better men would come, And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#war #death

But love is this really powerful thing that everyone's got if they'd just learn how to accept it. I mean, come on. If it's something we all have to give, and if it's something we all want, doesn't that mean there's exactly enough to go around? ↗

— Philip Beard

#realistic-fiction #young-adult #death

Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats. ↗

— Bart Stupak

#democrats #fund #groups #us #won

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#another #became #dissatisfied #fortune #i

I suppose they're like the I.R.S. You move once and they never send you your refund check. ↗

— Preston Sturges

#i #like #move #never #once

I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#i #i do #latin #mean #mexican

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job. ↗

— Frank Black

#critics #definition #job #their #truth

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#exist #futility #irrational #life #most

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#bonding #companionship #dogs #experience #friendship