#ture

It is the nature of creation, no one cares how much you are good or bad, just get famous, they all will walk after you. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#famous #nature #nature

He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, [possessing] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a volcano beneath a covering of snow. ↗

— William A. Phillips

#nature

Il ne faut pas avoir peur de regarder les choses en face. La vie est le résultat de la malpropreté. Si la nature avait été bien tenue, la vie ne serait jamais apparue. La vie est née de quelques vagues saletés au fond d'une flaque d'eau boueuse. La vie, donc l'homme. Il n'y a vraiment pas de quoi être fier. ↗

— François Cavanna

#humour #nature

...my heart is a desolate field over which geese vee, the sky turns and the days lie fallow... ↗

— John Geddes

#fallow #geese #heart #nature #pain

To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on a hill at a small hour of the night, and, having first expanded with a sense of difference from the mass of civilized mankind, who are diregardful of all such proceedings at this time, long and quietly watch your stately progress through the stars. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#individuality #nature #soul #spirituality #nature

What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it is easily overlooked. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. This morning, for example, I felt as if I had come to myself on a strange island. And what does such a cast away do? Why he pokes around the neighborhood and he doesn't miss a trick. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. ↗

— Walker Percy

#walker-percy #nature

...an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the end of a thousand years, is what it was in the first of those thousand years. Why is man alone subject to becoming an imbecile? ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#nature #philosophy #political-science #political-theory #nature

If we persist in defining ourselves as doomed, human nature as beyond redemption, and social institutions as beyond reform, then we shall create a future that will inexorably proceed in confirming this view. Rescuers refused to see Jews as guilty or beyond hope and themselves as helpless, despite all the evidence that could be marshaled to the contrary. They made a choice that affirmed the value and meaningfulness of each life in the midst of a diabolical social order that repeatedly denied it. Can we do otherwise? ↗

— Samuel P. Oliner

#hope #nature

Imagina que has aceptado la muerte, como algo inevitable.Desde pequeños sabemos que la muerte existe, que todos morimos algún día, pero no lo aceptas, no del todo. Piensas que la muerte es algo que sólo les pasa a los demás, que es algo perdido en un tiempo muy lejano, donde aún no has llegado, y donde nunca llegarás. Cumplir sesenta años te hace pensar en la muerte. En que, tal vez, el momento no esté tan lejos como esperabas. Una muerte rápida y natural, pero muerte a fin de cuentas. Y te da miedo pensar en ello. ↗

— Francisco Miguel Espinoza

#nature

I hate math. It's hard, it's stupid, and it's nature's way of separating spinsters from women who end up breeding. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#nature