#troy

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#better #container #destroys #does #else

Confidence is not a wilted plant that can be brought back to life with a bit of water. It is a highly flammable object. Doubt sets it aflame and destroys it irreparably. ↗

— Michèle Halberstadt

#destroy #flame #life #plant #water

Ich meine, was willst du, Andy? Soll ich verschwinden oder bleiben oder tot umfallen? Was? ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#andy-faiakes #goddess #göttlich-verliebt #hector-delos #hector-of-troy

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die. ↗

— Tom Waits

#men

But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one, our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love, so time discovers us safely destroyed. ↗

— Federico García Lorca

#broken #destroyed #entwine #federico-garcia-lorca #love

And overpowered by memory Both men gave way to grief. Priam wept freely For man - killing Hector, throbbing, crouching Before Achilles' feet as Achilles wept himself, Now for his father, now for Patroclus once again And their sobbing rose and fell throughout the house. ↗

— Homer

#greek #homer #iliad #patroclus #priam

It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence. ↗

— Aberjhani

#demographics-of-united-states #humanity #post-racial-america #race-and-racism-in-america #race-relations

He waved to me to be quiet, as if I were annoying background noise. "Look, whatever your name is..." Benvolio Montague." Right. Look, Benvolio, why don't we go outside and get a taxi? My label has a New York office. We can go there and get you a money order or something." He smile, thinking himself clever. "Come on, what do you say?" Benvolio raised an eyebrow. "I am begining to believe that you are insane. ↗

— Suzanne Selfors

#juliet #romeo #saving-juliet #time-travel #troy

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#evolution #existence #natural-selection #nature

Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind ↗

— Charles Manson

#benefit #charles-manson #destroyed #humans #hunted