#men

In that nanosecond of enlightenment I knew that the human spirit survives the death of the physical body and I understood that my wandering soul needed to get back into its earthly habitat. ↗

— Janet Bettag

#brain-aneurysm #enlightenment #human-spirit #inspirational #near-death-experience

Over the years, a number of other intriguing experimental ideas and areas of investigation have been the objects of my attention, and I have devoted some time and effort to exploring the inherent possbilities. ↗

— Frederick Reines

#attention #been #devoted #effort #experimental

She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#women #zealousness #humor

Sh!t. F_ck sh!t.'.... 'Sh!t f_ck would have also been accepted. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#humorous #humor

I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#women #love

That day, that day when I can gaze at the sea--both of us calm--and I, trusting, having poured my whole heart into my Life Work....when death--black waves!--no longer courts me and I can smile, constantly, at everything because, my bones, there will be so little of myself left to give it. ↗

— Juan Ramón Jiménez

#life-work #nature-writing #poetry #death

I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous -- constantly attacking people with his fists in public places -- so I kept clear of him. He was consumptive but the immediate cause of his death was a broken heart. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#broken-heart #consumption #poets #young-men #death

Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them. ↗

— Alasdair Gray

#birth #creation #death #decay #growth

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ↗

— Carl Jung

#darkness #enlightenment #light #imagination

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down. ↗

— W.B. Kinsella

#imagination