#th

...being able to listen to unrepeatable secrets, wishes, and desires wasn't as wonderful as it seemed...being aware of what other people felt at every moment would come to cause him a lot of headaches, and huge disappointments in love. ↗

— Laura Esquivel

#love #thoughts #communication

We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad. ↗

— Robert McKee

#insanity #lunatics #thinking #communication

It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes. ↗

— Sharyn McCrumb

#death

No matter how much and how often - 'things' will never compensate for loss or absence...no matter how guilty a parent feels. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#death

Is the groom going to go where no man has gone before? ↗

— Sharyn McCrumb

#star-trek #death

These pastoral-poet guys with their bleating goats and oaten pipes can stuff their phalaecean hendecasyllabics where the sun don't shine. ↗

— David Wishart

#death

You are unwilling to pay that price, even knowing that the consolation prize is not only to learn every philosophy that has ever existed, but ones which have not yet been conceived? Even knowing that if you do not accept, you will soon cease to learn anything at all?" Raimund tilted his head, still staring into my eyes, and I knew he must see the tears filling them, though I held them back from falling. "My friend," he whispered, "do you really believe your own words, I wonder? Your pain makes me think you know that death is not the end of learning, but only the beginning. ↗

— Krisi Keley

#knowledge #death

Love is God’s medicine.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey ↗

— Amunhotep El Bey

#love #love-quotations #motivational-quotations #quote #quotes

The planet's tyrant, dotard Death, had held his gray mirror before them for a moment and shown them the image of things to come. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#death

Image is only temporal. Substance endures. Who said, "Image is everything"? And who believed it? ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#endurance #image #quotes #substabce #death