#los

I did not think you would be angry, Jem burst out, and it was like ice cracking across a frozen waterfall, freeing a torrent. We were engaged, Tessa. A proposal-an offer of marriage-is a promise. A promise to love and care for someone always. I did not mean to break mine to you. But it was that or die. I wanted to wait, to be married to you and live wit you for years, but that wasn't possible. I was dying too fast. I would have given it up-all of it up-to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder-a reminder of everything I am losing. The life I will not have. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #loss #love #marriage

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#philosophy #progress #music

If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet. ↗

— Keith Richards

#music #philosophy #politics #music

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter ↗

— John Keats

#religion #science #religion

The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before. ↗

— John Green

#loss #memory #remember

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#philosophy #past

Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease. ↗

— Aberjhani

#inspiration #iraq #peace #philosophy #september-

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ↗

— Henry Adams

#insoluble #insoluble problems #philosophy #problems #unintelligible

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#dreamer #his #idiot #philosopher #speculative

A friend in power is a friend lost. ↗

— Henry Adams

#lost #power