#lit

I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one’s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away? ↗

— Voltaire

#life

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#life #morality #religion #life

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. ↗

— Colum McCann

#literature #untold-stories #life

It takes three to make love, not two: you, your spouse, and God. Without God people only succeed in bringing out the worst in one another. Lovers who have nothing else to do but love each other soon find there is nothing else. Without a central loyalty life is unfinished. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#christianity #church #expectations #god #happiness

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#life #nor #poverty #simpler #simplify

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day. ↗

— Stephanie Perkins

#individuality #self-expression #life

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#life

I have fallen in love with you, and there is no future for us. That you burst into my life suddenly only a short time ago. That it's too fast, too soon, and you will leave the same way you came into my life. I'll turn around one day and you'll be gone. ↗

— Rachel Gibson

#romance #life

Oh, no. It costs a lot more than your life. To murder innocent people?" says Peeta. "It costs everything you are. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#murder #life

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#forced #honesty #identity #lies #life