#truth

Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place. ↗

— Matthew Inman

#truth #life

I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#life #terry-pratchett #tiffany-aching #truth #witches

I would rather die an individual than live my life as a clone. ↗

— Cristina Marrero

#truth #life

You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#life #truth #life

Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don't intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or no intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of control. ...Sometimes things take on a life of their own. You become powerless. There is nothing you can do to stop certain things from happening. ↗

— Dana Reinhardt

#life #pain #truth #life

Who are we without our memories? ↗

— Marta Acosta

#la-vie #life #memories #truth #life

The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe. ↗

— Toba Beta

#define #formulation #interaction #life #mystery

I shrugged. “I guess that guys who’d never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would,” I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late. ↗

— Tammara Webber

#life-lessons #too-little-too-late #truth #life

Why do you dwell on things that don’t matter when there are so many things that do? ↗

— Dennis Sharpe

#life-lessons #questioning #simple-truth #life

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there’s always a bloody show. ↗

— Stephen King

#truth #wisdom #life