#dying

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? ↗

— William Law

#conceive #day #extravagant #fly #his

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#anything #before #college #comedic #drama

NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#been #construction #giraffe #learn #nasa

It’s not that we have to leave this life one day, it's how many things we have to leave all at once: holding hands, hotel rooms, wine, summertime, drunkenness, and the physics of falling leaves, clothing, myrrh, perfumed hair, flirting friends, two strangers' glance; the reflection of the moon, with words like, 'Soon' ... 'do you want me?' ... '...to lie enlaced' ... 'and sleep entwined' thinking ahead, with thoughts behind...?' Ô, Why! Why can’t we leave this life slowly? ↗

— Roman Payne

#dying #living #losing-a-friend #love #moon

Dying people often become childish. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#childish #dying #often #people

So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#bad #because #commit #dying #i

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

#dying #first #gladly #house #i

You could hear him, literally, half a mile away when he opened up. He was at his peak then. He was, naturally, dying to get out of the place he was in, and he recorded for us his appeal for pardon to the governor. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#away #could #dying #get #governor