#life

But the life of a Willa Cather, a Lillian Helman, and Virginia Woolf - - - would it not be a series of rapid ascents and probing descents into shades and meanings — into more people, ideas and conceptions? Would it not be in color, rather than black-and-white, or more gray? I think it would. And thus, I not being them, could try to be more like them: to listen, observe, and feel, and try to live more fully. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#willa-cather #life

These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

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Life is a complex with real and imaginary parts ↗

— Angela Suba Natarajan

#philosophy #life

He’d never really given religion much thought himself. It was just there, one of the basic fundamentals of life and living; Heaven is generally good and one should aspire to end up there, and Hell is decidedly foul and one should generally direct their enemies there. ↗

— T.A. Miles

#enemies #evil #good #heaven #heaven-and-hell

...it's stupid to be that way, so easily hurt; it's better to be like a plank of wood, an emotional mule. It's best not to feel,...best to have your nerve endings cauterized. ↗

— Sonya Hartnett

#life

Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality? ↗

— Kara Dalkey

#perception #reality #universe #life

How could I possibly gone this long without the touch of another human being? I've been living my life like a zombie ↗

— Theresa Alan

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When darkness comes and eats the light, bury your fears on sorry night. Because in the winter's darkest hours, comes the feasting of the Vours. You cannot see it, the life they stole. Your body's there, but not your soul. ↗

— Simon Holt

#life

To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state. To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable. Sublime: of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth. ↗

— Rachel Klein

#social #life

Love is like life but longer. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#love #life