#ife

A man could shoot a squirrel out of a tree from a distance of sixty feet. But he couldn't vomit into a bucket or pee into a pot only two feet away. It was one of the great mysteries of life. ↗

— Maggie Osborne

#man-jokes #mystery-of-life #silver-lining #life

She looked out at the other trees, and she realised that her life was one of thousands, any one of which could have been her, she had grown wherever her life had taken her, she had drifted wherever the wind had blown her. ↗

— Dave McKean

#life #life

You are curious and quick, you have a deft mind, and for some unaccountable reason, people tell you things -- useful things. ↗

— Deanna Raybourn

#intrigue #marriage #mystery #nicholas-brisbane #partnership

Not only does the universe have its own laws, all of them indifferent to the contradictory dreams and desires of humanity, and in the formulation of which we contribute not one iota, apart, that is, from the words by which we clumsily name them, but everything seems to indicate that it uses these laws for aims and objectives that transcend and always will transcend our understanding. ↗

— José Saramago

#life #nature #understanding #dreams

Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives? ↗

— Alan Lightman

#dreams

One live One true love One chance ↗

— Ouggad Mohamed Mostafa

#love

I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But under us all moved, and moved us, gently, up and down, and from side to side. (Pause. Krapp's lips move. No sound.) Past midnight. Never knew such silence. The earth might be uninhabited. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#krapp #life #love #movement #play

Anyone who thinks money can't buy happiness has never owned a cat [or any pet]. ↗

— Arya Riverdale

#life #pets #life

Life can be dramatic and funny all in the same day. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#dramatic #funny #life #same

Marriage is the producer of babies ↗

— Michael Ikechukwu john

#marriage