#si

The man is as useless as nipples on a breastplate. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#simile #witty #insult

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#simile #insult

What is life if you don't have a dream to chase? ↗

— J.C. McClean

#dreams #fate #life #dreams

We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#culture

It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing could be further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#ethics #humanist-psychology #mental-health #socio-analysis #culture

There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away. ↗

— Rachel Simmons

#bullying #peers #culture

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.” “That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have been homeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#jev #nora #patch #possessive-baddass-hottie #vee

Black as night, sweet as sin. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#boys #coffee #coffee

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#peace #supernatural

I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die. I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports... When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#passion #romance #dreams