#til

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#grief #grieving #loss #stillbirth #death

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated. ↗

— W. L. George

#been #civilized #educated #largely #less

I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do. ↗

— Claude Williams

#doing #far #get #go #going

New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning. ↗

— Robert Asprin

#day #essentially #life #midnight #morning

I'm still playing the game, having a great time. ↗

— Jason Giambi

#great #great time #having #i #playing

But miracles still happen, even if we don't think they do. ↗

— Diet Eman

#dutch #holocaust #jesus-christ #righteous-gentile #wwii

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#cause #die #dreams #endures #goes

The education of a man is never completed until he dies. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

#dies #education #man #never #until

A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#poe #short-stories #the-cask-of-amontillado #equality

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do. ↗

— Aaron Peirsol

#i #old #retiring #still #strange