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There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry, to be alive or dead; when life appeared to her like a grotesque pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable annihilation. ↗

— Kate Chopin

#worms #life

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#judgement #life #preparation #religion #life

He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#expression #face #life #satire #life

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#madness #manic-depression #mental-illness #reality #life

What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#carpe-diem #completion #life #life

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#self-expression #uniqueness #life

You don't look fake when you unconsciously pretend. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #pretend #unconscious #life

Easy climb, Kurokuma. You do it easily.' 'Not on your life,' Horace said... 'That's what we have Rangers for. They climb up sheer rock walls and crawl along narrow, slippery ledges. I'm a trained warrior, and I'm far to valuable to risk such shenanigans.' 'We're not valuable?' Will said, feigning insult. Horace looked at him. 'We've got two of you. We can always afford to lose one,' he said firmly. ↗

— John Flanagan

#ranger-s-apprentice #will #life

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good. ↗

— Andrew Solomon

#depression #fear #life #speaking #words

It was an easy choice to return with Lotus Renault GP as I have been impressed by the scope of the team's ambition. ↗

— Kimi Raikkonen

#been #choice #easy #i #impressed