#if

He pulled me toward him, and all I could do was stand there with arms at my sides and head against his chest. Broken, I feared even the slightest movement would cause pieces of me to snap off and fall to the gritty pavement. ↗

— Jodi LaPalm

#novella #romance #still-life #life

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#efficient #egotism #essential #interest #living

Without living, how can you know? Without knowing, how can you speak? ↗

— J.E. Seanachaí

#life-lesson #philosophy #wisdom #writing #life

Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#gifts #must #point #receiver #shock

Have you ever thought, thought your heart would break? Wished you could cut open your chest tear it out to stop the pain? Why don´t you riot like everyone else. I don't care, life's too long. You can have any man you want. I want him...except him. Always suspected the world didn't smell of fresh paint and flowers. Smells of piss and human sweat If there could have been more moments like this. ↗

— Sarah Kane

#desire #love #pain #sadness #life

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#convictions #facts #far #life #more

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#destructive #feeling #life #lives #living

It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead ↗

— Mike Dirnt

#life

Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#key #life #like #looking

Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#common-sense #life #society #life