#eat

I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable. ↗

— Eugene Forsey

#future #god #greatest #hidden #i

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#birth #death #facts #five #food

It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature. ↗

— Morrie Schwartz

#human #life #natural #death

A man without reason is no better than a mad dog, and mad dogs must be put down for the good of everyone. ↗

— James L. Sutter

#religion #death

Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#causes #creative #greater #represent #than

...In the end, there's no sort of difference between dying from ignorance and dying under the feet of thousands of men who have regained their freedom. You close your eyes, and then there's nothing anymore. And death is never difficult. It requires neither a hero nor a slave. It eats what it's served. ↗

— Philippe Claudel

#freedom #humanity #slavery #death

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us. ↗

— Frederick Forsyth

#alive #been #day #hour #i

Nature generally struggles against this treatment for a while, until her powers seem in a great measure exhausted, when she quietly yields to the power of the art. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#art #exhausted #generally #great #her

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me. ↗

— Jodie Foster

#always #been #being #being alone #combination

I'm talking about those novels where the characters aren't really interesting and you don't care about them or anything they care about. It's those books I won't read anymore. There's too much else to read--books about people and things that matter, books about life and death. ↗

— Will Schwalbe

#characters #death #life #reading #death