#s

Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down. ↗

— W.B. Kinsella

#imagination

I am by nature a person suspicious of the economic machine that feeds me. And yet I am a captive of that economic machine, and my mind is structured by its lessons and demands. I consume its wealth with zest. I drive a truck, watch a color television, and write on a computer, but I cannot overcome the feeling that these objects and the industrial culture that produced them are temporary things, a kind of fat beast feeding on the bounty of the earth that will starve to death within the next century, or at least be severely diminished. ↗

— Charles Bowden

#death

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Alyssa Arryn had seen her husband, her brothers, and all her children slain, and yet in life she had never shed a tear. So in death, the gods had decreed that she would know no rest until her weeping watered the black earth of the Vale, where the men she had loved were buried. Catelyn wondered how large a waterfall her own tears would make when she died. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#death

He cannot freshly harm me here, and for that I am grateful, but the harm he previously inflicted reverberates and grows. There is nothing to heal it but time. Even here, there is no other cure for heartbreak. I wish that death were a magical cure for all that ailed my spirit in life; it is one more thing I expected and found false. I arrive with the same baggage I carried with me in life. There is nowhere to lay it down here either, no more than a woman with child can lay aside her babe before its birth, for it is within me. I am as I was, just not encumbered with flesh. ↗

— Nell Gavin

#death

For though, I walk through the valley of shadows of Death, I will never fear. For You are in Me and I know You will never let me Go. ↗

— Jestoni Revealed

#fear #god #hope #inspiration #jesus

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#existence #inevitable-progress #inverse-tower-of-babel #death

He walked hesitantly toward her and then wrapped his arms around her in a gentle hug. “You just looked like you needed one,” he said. ↗

— Maya Banks

#romantic-suspense #romantic

What makes you think you are superior to the rest? ↗

— mellyberry

#inspirational #inspirational

I would rather have bowel surgery in the woods with a stick. If you are not stung or pronged to death in some unexpected manner, you may be fatally chomped by sharks or crocodiles, or carried helplessly out to sea by irresistible currents, or left to stagger to an unhappy death in the baking outback. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#death