#philosophy

My God, is this a date?" Jeff had asked when I asked if I could bring her along. "I don't know," I said. "She might still be happily lesbian. ↗

— Jefferson Bass

#my-life-story #ruined-youth #dating

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#life #philosophy #science #death

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#legacy #life #muad-dib #philosophy #truth

The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

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In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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You walk around feeling like a teenager and immortal your whole life, and suddenly there isn't much time left. ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#life-and-death #life-philosophy #mortality #perception #time

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#death

He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

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Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Tev bija taisnība, zvaigznes ir tuvu. ↗

— Gundega Repše

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