#los

If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#anything #even #friends #human #human suffering

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#any #certain #cost #cruel #elderly

I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#author #being #both #funeral #i

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you're hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#day #difference #know #leg #lose

I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history. ↗

— David E. Price

#am #any #closely #fact #faith

As we were walking home the other night, Orafoura turned to me and said, “Were you aware that there are places in the universe where time doesn’t exist?” “I know,” I replied. “That’s where I went to buy my last watch. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #orafoura #philosophical #ridiculous

The only ones I trust really are my Mum and Dad and those who are closest to me. ↗

— Katie Price

#dad #i #me #mum #ones

I can never read this book, just like I can never see a movie that I wrote a screenplay for. I can read it and see it physically, but I can't accurately judge it. I'm too close to it. If I read it ten times I'll have ten different reactions. ↗

— Richard Price

#book #close #different #i #i can

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day. ↗

— Richard Price

#day #enough #letters #lose #make

[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth." "No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it." "And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?" Here she laughs. "You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing. ↗

— Iain Pears

#enlightenment #fear #mankind #philosophy #soul