#pi

Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first! ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#truth #death

...Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#obediance #death

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#happiness #harmony #keystones #love #marriage

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed. ↗

— Albert Camus

#death

I am death and I am here to take you away from this world. No one will ever care that you are missing. When you die you will forget all of this and there will be nothing more for you. ↗

— C.V. Hunt

#death

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland. ↗

— Horace

#death

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#faith

It is utterly impossible to be happy without being grateful. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#life

The horse had a fly-net over its head and ears. It looked down on the paving-stones with the empty disappointed expression of an old moral theologian. Whenever the guide spat between his shoes, the horse shook his head in disapproval. ↗

— Wolfgang Koeppen

#moral #spitting #theologian #death

When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse. ↗

— Josh Gates

#death #hospital #traveling #death