#nothin

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. ↗

... "I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked". The Christians describe the Enemy as one "without whom Nothing is strong". And Nothing is very strong: strong enough to steal away a man's best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them ... ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#life

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. ↗

— Jane Austen

#does #having #less #love #nothing

No, every album is something like a snapshot. It only shows one moment in time. It shows what we feel and think right at that point in time, nothing more and nothing less. ↗

— Damon Albarn

#every #feel #less #like #moment

You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now and know completely that that would mean to me absolutely nothing. ↗

— Jean Stafford

#absolutely nothing #best #completely #generation #hope

If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong to believe myself unfit to raise my daughter. Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else. ↗

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#the-unloved #the-unwanted #love

A life, a history, whole patterns of existence altered, simply by doing nothing. The silent lie. The act of omission. ↗

— Aminatta Forna

#silence #love

Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort. ↗

— Jane Austen

#nothing

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#nothing

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world. ↗