#on

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #ideal-woman

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. ↗

— Mae West

#double-entendre #empowerment #freedom #independence #institutions

I thought of love as a game. It is not a game. It is more serious than death. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#death

We love because we can lose. If there was no threat of separation, no death to shake us to our core, we probably wouldn't love much at all. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#love #separation #death

I don’t even like cemeteries. Morgues, either, nor anatomy museums, undertakers’ parlors, funeral chapels, or any of those places where the world of the living sparks against the world of the dead, and a spot of burned out time fades, diffuse in an ocean of timelessness. ↗

— Elizaveta Mikhailichenko

#fiction-novel #death

Braveness is life .... i consider all other as DEATH ↗

— midhun

#death

We are not wise; we are wise to seek divine wisdom. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#divine-intuition #quotes-to-live-by #wisdom #death

After Death, there is Reincarnation. ↗

— Jeremy Shory

#death

The natural way of life is perfect as it, seeds die so flowers can bloom, and in time they give themselves back to the earth. ↗