#infini

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. ↗

— Mark Twain

#approach #born #could #eighteen #eighty

Infinite Jest not only says that being human is hard work; it makes us work hard. It not only suggests we put ourselves in service to something larger than ourselves; it is one of those larger somethings. That's its rhetorical genius, and is how Wallace gets his self-help “to fly at such a high altitude”: Like AA, it is theory and praxis in a single stroke. Or: It is what it says, which may be the purest form of art. ↗

— Garth Risk Hallberg

#infinite-jest #art

Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite. ↗

— Peter Davis

#immortality #infinite #art

You've felt it, haven't you? Those feelings that seem to get so big in your chest, like something is so beautiful it aches? ↗

— Heather Anastasiu

#infinite #beauty

until only infinity remained of beauty ↗

— John Ashbery

#infinity #beauty

Beauty, happiness, they're things so big they can't capture them with their scientific words. It's like what they used to call magic. ↗

— Heather Anastasiu

#feeling-infinite #happiness #infinite #magic #beauty

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision. ↗

— Jess Walter

#perception #beauty

Sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #infinite #beauty

We are born to believe We can’t change a thing We can’t, and we never could. But before you believe The things you believe You must understand To be understood. ↗

— John C. O’Callaghan

#ode-to-infinity #the-maine #change

That you exist this way, Zoe, you're the ultimate proof that we can be so much more than just the sum of our parts and knee-jerk impulses. Something about you just could not be controlled, just had to be free. ↗

— Heather Anastasiu

#free #freedom #infinite #freedom