#los

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#catholicism #christianity #god #jesus-shock #love

And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#lost-love #life

I've lost someone, too; someone I loved. I know how you feel." - Does it get easier? "Yes. But you'll never be the same again. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#loss #love #love

If character is destiny, I was fated to be carried off into the desert. From the deck of the ship I had imagined my own ghost and seen my unvanishing footsteps. When you don't belong anywhere it doesn't matter where you are or where you go, if you stay or move on. You arrive at a place where the view forwards and backwards is the same, where the sun rises in the east one day and the west the next, where you stop planning and live like the birds and beasts by intuition and instinct. ↗

— Chloe Thurlow

#erotica #philosophy #travel #imagination

I have a feeling you're right, Sherwin.' 'Simon. My name is Simon. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-lost-souls #magnus-bane #simon-lewis #the-mortal-instruments #magnus-bane

Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian can't be the greatest company." "We don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble," said Magnus. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane

I like to think myself as a freewheeling Bisexual ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane

He carefully maintained the blasé air of one who had been here before and had been incredibly well dressed that time too ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#catarina-loss #magnus-bane #peru #ragnor-fell #sarah-rees-brennan

The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#philosophy #terry-pratchett #wintersmith #humor

You know, if a waitress asks me if I want ketchup with my fries, I’ll reply, “No thanks, I’ll just drink water.” And that’s not just a statement about table etiquette; it’s a personal quote that accurately reflects my moral and philosophical belief system. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#non-sequitur #philosophy #funny