#sk

The idea that all souls are mortal is the only notion surely terminating love and all its forms. ↗

— Criss Jami

#atheism #belief #capability #damnation #death

Risks? I have lived with the prospect of assassination for years. What risks? All men die, rich and poor alike. But if I am to die, then let it be while I fight, not like some bullock in a pen waiting for the ax to fall. ↗

— David Gemmell

#risk #death

to ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on you, something else is hurting you - that's why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think, or madhouses or mechanical cunts or 162 baseball games in a season. or vietnam or israel or the fear of spiders. your love washing her yellow false teeth in the sink before you screw. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#dirty-realism #drugs #legalization #legalize #pot

Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law. ↗

— H.C. Paye

#broken-heart #helmets #law #love #risk

Do you love me, Rain?" "More than I knew it was possible to love. All the stars will fall from the heavens before I ever stop. ↗

— C.L. Wilson

#king-of-sword-and-sky #love #romantic #love

It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled It's not a weakness- It's your best strength- ... I know it in my heart- Right now- Todd Hewitt- There's nothing we can't do together- And we're gonna win- ↗

— Patrick Ness

#the-ask-and-the-answer #love

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. ↗

— Sheryl Sandberg

#inspirational #leadership #lean-in #motivational #risk-taking

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#murder #skepticism #men

Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis’s comments on them, and burned them. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#craft #literature #poetry #self-confidence #skill

The seas were found agitated, the few humans that remained, aimlessly. The reservoirs, without water. The animals, exhausted, the sky, black as the darkest coal. ↗

— Daniel Díez Ginestar

#diez #ginestar #global #inspirational #movie