#de

There is no new beginning. No second chance. You turned to me and I wasn't there. You are dead. If I had taken your call, you would be alive. It's as blunt as that. I'm sorry. ↗

— Rosamund Lupton

#death

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. ↗

— George Eliot

#asked #being #between #decrepit #down

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ↗

— George Eliot

#bred #cloudy #damp #despondency #egoism

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ↗

— George Eliot

#declared #election #foxes #interest #lives

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. ↗

— George Eliot

#responsibility #those #tolerance #vision #who

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation. ↗

— George Eliot

#interpretation #key #know #meanings

Everyone wants to be the one to get the mattress pad. ... We can do this. We all love to do. The more we can do, the less we have to sit and stare at trees and think about the transient nature of life." - 131 ↗

— Robin Romm

#death-of-a-loved-one #death

Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#creativity #hand #maiden

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#greatest #last #reason #right #temptation

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#cannot #degree #even #finger #invariably