#nin

if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just what they were thinking and feeling, then they would just have looked into each other’s eyes, and Constantine would only have said: ‘You’re dying, dying, dying!’ – while Nicholas would simply have replied: ‘I know I’m dying, but I’m afraid, afraid, afraid!’ That’s all they would have said if they’d been talking straight from the heart. But it was impossible to live that way, so Levin tried to do what he’d been trying to do all his life without being able to, what a great many people could do so well, as he observed, and without which life was impossible: he tried to say something different from what he thought, and he always felt it came out false, that his brother caught him out and was irritated by it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#dying #karenina #leo #levin #tolstoy

The end is not the reward; the path you take, the emotions that course through you as you grasp life - that is the reward. ↗

— Jamie Magee

#reward #life

There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How do you explain that? What happened to that love? What happened to it, is what I'd like to know. I wish someone could tell me. ↗

— Raymond Carver

#divorce #falling-out #hate #love #love-to-hate

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#circle #infinite #life #motion #life

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#defensiveness #listening #life

Those who are made can be unmade. ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#life-lessons #made #threatening #life

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji) ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#learning #lesson #life #manga #open-mindedness

Just tell me why; why the fucking why?" To which the universe would hollowly respond, "My ways cannot be known, oh man." Which is to say, "My ways do not make sense, nor do the ways of those who dwell in me. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#meaninglessness #life

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#meaning #life

Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music ↗

— Sergei Rachmaninov

#music #rachmaninov #sergei #life