#nat

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

He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared eternal life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#fear #human-nature #life #spirit #death

The spirits of the brain are directly connected to the testicles. This is why men who weary their imagination in books are less suitable for procreative functions... ↗

— Louis de la Forge

#books #humor #neurology #reading #sex

It's time to start living the life you've imagined. ↗

— Henry James

#imagination

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#longing #love #imagination

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

— Carl Jung

#darkness #enlightenment #light #imagination

Good photographs are taken not with the camera. Good photographs are taken with Mind, Soul, Eyes, and Imagination where Eyes like a shutter, Mind like a lens, Imagination like an object and Soul like a canvas. ↗

— Parveen Sharma

#photo #photography #pictures #imagination

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#philosophy #reflection #imagination

Never outgrow your imagination. ↗

— Teresa Mummert

#inspiration #imagination

The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#science #skepticism #imagination