#though

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. ↗

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

#midnight #noon #thought

If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches didn't go all tight and tiny. Where people loved you and didn't leave you for someone else. ↗

— Karen Hancock

#love #thoughts #life

Life eats life to live. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #eats #life #literature #literature-quotes

First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me. ↗

— Pastor Martin Neimoeller

#way-of-life #life

What is it like to be at one with the world? Is it peaceful, where we simply fade into nothing-ness? Or a delicate balance, one where the slightest of things disturbs it. Is it humbling or terrifying? Does it take our breath away? Or does it subtly flow through us all, finding rare times to surface. ↗

— Alexander Geiersbach

#life #thought-provoking #life

A wonderful privilege it was to be thus admitted into the soul of a man of genius, to be allowed to share the ecstasies and the agonies of his inmost life. ↗

— Upton Sinclair

#soul #thoughts #life

Don't let circumstances determine your fate. Choose your fate and mold circumstances to fit your fate of choice. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

#fate #thoughts-on-life #life

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

#although #been #being #children #enormous

Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#anything #before #college #comedic #drama

God cannot alter the past, though historians can. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#alter #cannot #god #historians #past