#era

The vampire Dimitri calmly looked up at Reese and smiled. “Commander, everything gets easier over time,” he answered. “Especially if you have all the time that there is. And I do. As a human, you live such a short span of time that you do not learn that life is a continuous battle with one enemy—and that compromise is the only way to ultimately win. Those that do not understand this and think they can control everything; fall to the death of illusion. ↗

— Tony Ruggiero

#death

That´s the problem with planning a late night supper after the opera, not only does the hero or the heroine die singing, but you end up famished after the last notes of the finale. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#funny #humor #humorous #humour #life

You have to wait for a big star to come in and generate interest on a project, and now that has become me, which is an amazing blessing. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#become #big #big star #blessing #come

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date. ↗

— Caroline Rhea

#being #date #great #guy #hour

Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once! Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be! ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#meaning-of-life #philosophy-literature #death

Love is almost never simple. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #love

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me. ↗

— Anne Rice

#destruction #love #love

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#directions #hate #literature #literature-quotes #love

Exposing impressionable young men to the glories of opera on their first evening at home with you tended to put the kiss of death on things, as Oliver, to his cost, had discovered over the years. ↗

— Anthony McDonald

#opera #death

Books and minds only work when they're open. ↗

— James Dewar

#intelligence #left-is-right-and-right-is-wrong #liberalism #open-mindedness #practicality