#dec

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#death #decadence #funerals #death

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#life #life

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#lies #life #truth #life

Zeven jaar lang heb ik dag en nacht met slechts een gedachte voor mijn geest rongelopen - haar. Als er maar een christen was die zo trouw aan zijn God was als ik aan haar, dan zouden we vandaag allemaal Jezus Christus zijn. Dag en nacht dacht ik aan haar, zelfs als ik haar bedroog. ↗

— Henry Miller

#love

I´ve blown it, the whole grisly charade. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

Mordred and Agravaine thought Arthur hypocritical—as all decent men must be, if you assume that decency can’t exist. ↗

— T.H. White

#hypocrisy #men

It's funny; I actually made poorer decisions when I sobered up then when I was screwed up. ↗

— Corey Feldman

#decisions #funny #i #made #poorer

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good. ↗

— Lester Bangs

#artistic #basically #come #creative #decent

Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live. ↗

— Adam Ant

#companies #decline #i #live #music

You didn’t just automatically become a Christian, did you? You weren’t made a Christian by just going to church. Just like you are not made a car by sitting in a garage all day! You have to make a decision. ↗

— Corallie Buchanan

#faith #healing-the-past #faith