#nature

What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant. ↗

— Robert Edison Fulton Jr.

#constant #human #human-nature #nature #people

I'm a fighter by nature and nothing will ever change that. ↗

— Anastacia

#ever #fighter #i #nature #nothing

Phoebe asked me, "Tell me, what do you think of the afterlife?" I was a bit nonplussed. I had no idea what she thought, but I knew that the question must be of greater interest to someone of her age than to me. But our conversation had been completely honest, and before I could speak, honesty and tact had joined hands in my answer. "I have no faith at all," I said, "but sometimes I have hope." I rather think," she replied, "that total annihilation is the most comfortable position." I was shaken. The horse clopped on. The children laughed behind us. When I die," she said, "I don't expect to see any of my loved ones again. I'll just become a part of all this." She waved her hand at the surrounding countryside. "That's all right with me. ↗

— Sena Jeter Naslund

#life #mortality #nature #age

If silence were your best friend, it means that you have found yourself a faithful & enriching companion for life! ↗

— Anandputra Ananta

#faith

No speech can stain what is noble by nature. ↗

— Sophocles

#noble #speech #stain

The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable. ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#horror #nature

Summer coming like a car from down the highway. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#nature

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#obsession #order #nature

All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#nature

Things don't ever stay the same. Natural beginnings come to natural or unnatural ends. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#nature