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Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish: they did not melt. ↗

— Emily Brontë

#xv #life

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. ↗

— Eve Ensler

#life

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#ignorance #life #reality #suffering #life

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#holding #left #long #milk #only

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day. ↗

— Brad Meltzer

#humanity #life #life

There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life... it's The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that's not enough anymore. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#the-brothers-karamazov #life

Piece by piece, I slowly fade away, I slowly drift apart. ↗

— Five Finger Death Punch

#death

Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that. ↗

— Alan Moore

#life #under-the-hood #life

Cheshire Puss,' she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. 'Come, it's pleased so far,' thought Alice, and she went on. 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?' 'That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat. 'I don't much care where—' said Alice. 'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat. '—so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation. 'Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, 'if you only walk long enough. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#humor #life #humor

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. ↗

— John von Neumann

#math #maths #life