#life

It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#combat #values-in-life #war #warriors #age

Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that's when she turns into a 'Christmas Cake'. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward quickly become stale and are put on the shelf. ↗

— Andrew Davidson

#humor #life #women #age

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion—these are the two things that govern us. And yet— ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#enjoyment #fearless #happiness #life #love

Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception. ↗

— Ian Mortimer

#justice #medieval-life #age

Each moment of a happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life. ↗

— Aphra Behn

#life #love #age

You're never too old to be young. ↗

— Paul Palnik

#life-philosophy #youth #age

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#dreams #life #sadness #dreams

I was coming up on a cross street when a man wearing a filthy suit stepped out from around the corner of the building ahead and directly into my path. Bent with age, he turned bleak red eyes to me and stared. Pressed with his chest to both hands he carried a paperback book as soiled and bereft as his suit. Are you one of the real ones or not? he demanded. And after a moment, when I failed to answer, he walked on, resuming his sotto voce conversation. A chill passed through me. Somehow, indefinably, I felt, felt with the kind of baffled, tacit understanding that we have in dreams , that I had just glimpsed one possible future self. ↗

— James Sallis

#fate #life #age

I felt suddenly very young - or perhaps I felt my age: an almost childlike twenty-two, rather than that permanent middle-age that attaches itself to the man who lives alone and supports himself by wearing a suit in a city not of his birth. ↗

— Mohsin Hamid

#being-young #corporate-life #feeling-middle-age #age

One afternoon, I am complaining about the confusion of my age, what is expected of me versus what I want for myself. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life #relationships #age