#sure

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. ↗

— Helen Keller

#avoiding #children #danger #daring #does

Judgmental heart has lack of introspection. ↗

— Toba Beta

#judgmental #measurement #sign #subjectivity #introspection

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. ↗

— George MacDonald

#meditation #solitude #mac

Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.... ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#charity

Yes, I'm a small, emaciated teenage girl who struts around fighting vampires in earrings they would rip out of my ears and shove up my —!! Kyrian (Night Pleasures) ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#emaciated #kenyon #kyrian #night-pleasures #teenagers

In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades and go to bed for three or four days. I'd get up to shit. I'd eat a can of beans, go back to bed, just stay there for three or four days. Then I'd put on my clothes and I'd walk outside, and the sunlight was brilliant, and the sounds were great. I felt powerful, like a recharged battery. But you know the first bring-down? The first human face I saw on the sidewalk, I lost half my charge right there. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#sleep #human-rights

The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have a theory. These flashes come upon me at times... What do you think of this, Holmes? Sholto was, on his own confession, with his brother last night. The brother died in a fit, on which Sholto walked off the treasure! How's that?" "On which the dead man very considerately got up and locked the door on the inside," said Holmes. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#irony #murder #mystery #sherlock #sherlock-holmes

Leisure time is that five or six hours when you sleep at night. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

#hours #leisure #leisure time #night #six

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#complains #fool #indigestion #moral #pleasure

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love. ↗

— Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly

#lust #pleasure #love