#rave

If you continue to dig the same hole in the same place in your life, eventually you will be standing in a grave. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#death #grave #habits #issues #problems

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be. ↗

— Aeschylus

#his #resolve #seem

Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#accustomed #british #early #few #force

Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. ("Hanka") ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#grave #holocaust #death

Occasionally it's been a long and bumpy road - one I'm still travelling - but I've always felt like my home town has been solidly behind me and I'm both grateful and proud. ↗

— Simon Armitage

#been #behind #both #felt #grateful

I've brought my daughters all over the world-they travel with me. I drag them out of school just to keep the relationship. When I'm home I'm a big-time daddy. ↗

— Armand Assante

#brought #daddy #daughters #drag #home

If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it. ↗

— Tom Wilkinson

#being #brave #confronting #help #help people

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues. ↗

— Robert Greenleaf

#bravest #colleagues #even #same #subordinates

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl. ↗

— Dave Barry

#blocks #building #building blocks #fire #four

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#cemetery #drum #funeral #graves #heart