#jan

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beauty Lying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#busy #corner #dejan-stojanovic #expensive #free

Long ago an uncalled rain fell and a called-upon God stayed equally distant. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#god #literature #literature-quotes #poems #poetry

She watched as the dancing lights of madness swirled and flickered in his eyes like the fires of hell, and she knew that there would never be anything that could quench those fires except death. Vanessa knew that Jango had become his own Grim Reaper. ↗

— Cedric Nye

#death #grim-reaper #hell #horror #madness

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy... ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#religion #schopenhauer #yama #death

What on earth did you say to Isola? She stopped in on her way to pick up Pride and Prejudice and to berate me for never telling her about Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Why hadn't she known there were better love stories around? Stories not riddled with ill-adjusted men, anguish, death and graveyards! ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#leading-men #literature #pride-and-prejudice #romance #death

I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.' 'Station! Station!-- your station is in my heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#love #love

Love is almost never simple. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

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

Vanity, not love, has been my folly. ↗

— Jane Austen

#bennet #elizabeth-bennet #jane #love

Mars knew that love wasn't all red-paper valentines and candy hearts. Love wasn't always joy. Love could be hot-blooded pain down to the bone. Sometimes love was despair. And sometimes love was wrong. ↗

— Randy Russell

#jana-webster #mars-dreamcote #randy-russell #love