#uma

And just when you’d think [humans] were more malignant than ever Hell could be, they occasionally showed more grace than Heaven ever dreamed of. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#good #humanity #dreams

Нет заботы беспрерывнее и мучительнее для человека, как, оставшись свободным, сыскать поскорее того, перед кем поклониться. ↗

— Dostoevsky

#nature

In therapy, to meet the needs of traumatized survivors of war and torture, the patient is requested to repeatedly talk about the worst traumatic event in detail while re-experiencing all emotions associated with the event. Traumatic memory, they say, is cleared by narration of whole life; from early childhood up to the present date ... this book is my therapy. I am awash with living memories. ↗

— Alfred Nestor

#alfred-nestor #author-alfred-nestor #childhood-therapy #hitler #hitler-s-germany

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#humanity #life #media #statistics #tragedy

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#death #human #death