#ife

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature. ↗

— William Adams

#children #conscience #desiring #end #five

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'. ↗

— Naima Adedapo

#my life #song #title #would

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#enjoyment #few #friendship #greatest #highest

I was living my own future and my brother's lost one as well. I represented him here just as he represented me there, in some unguessable other place. His move from life to death might resemble my stepping into the kitchen - into its soft nowhere quality and foggy hum. I breathed the dark air. If I had at that moment a sense of calm kindly death while my heart beat and my lungs expanded, he might know a similar sense of life in the middle of his ongoing death. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#death #glbtq #life #love #death

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#flowers #good #humanity #inconceivable #life

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. ↗

— George Ade

#life #parlor #saver #use #vague

Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#death #heroic #life #death

Art and religion first; then philosophy; lastly science. That is the order of the great subjects of life, that's their order of importance. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#first #great #importance #lastly #life

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#dies #his #life #lived #vain

Only when a man's life comes to its end in prosperity dare we pronounce him happy. ↗

— Aeschylus

#dare #end #happy #him #life