#vin

I found it idiotically distressing that a sharp finger whistle could no longer summon them outdoors into a playful twilight. An ancient discovery was now mine to make: to leave is to make nothing less than a mortal action. The suspicion came to me for the fist time that they were figures of my dreaming, like the loved dead: my mother and all these vanished boys. And after Mama's cremation I could not rid myself of the notion that she had been placed in the furnace of memory even when alive and, by extension, that one's dealings with others, ostensibly vital, at a certain point become dealings with the dead. ↗

— Joseph O'Neill

#leaving #loyalty #death

Erlendur didn’t believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didn’t believe in God although he’d often read the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this world would affect whether he went to heaven or hell. He felt that life itself offered a mixture of the two. Then sometimes he experienced this incomprehensible and supernatural de´ja` -vu, experienced time and place as if he’d seen it all before, as if he stepped outside himself, became an onlooker to his own life. There was no way he could explain what it was that happened or why his mind played tricks on him like this. ↗

— Arnaldur Indriðason

#life-and-living #life-philosophy #death

There's three things I've seen in this world that seem to make a body happy or miserable. It's no money or health or any of those other things most people talk about. It's knowing where you fit in this world, being able to go after your dreams, and love. ↗

— Patricia McLinn

#dreams #happiness #dreams

Man träumt gar nicht, oder interessant -- Man muss lernen, ebeson zu wachen: -- gar nicht, oder interessant ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#living #dreams

That night, after the movie, driving my father's car along the country roads, I began to wonder ho real the landscape truly was, and how much of a dream is a dream. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#driving #dreams

Never stop dreaming or reading. ↗

— A.B. Shepherd

#hope #inspiration #life #life-and-living #reading

Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love…but don’t put your life on hold waiting for love. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#dating #finding-love #living-life-to-the-fullest #living-your-best-life #love

I think our lives are surely but the dreams Of spirits, dwelling in the distant spheres, Who as we die, do one by one awake. ↗

— Edgar Saltus

#lives #living #sphere #spheres #spirits

People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own shoreline is. The world is for your taking, but other people are not. One is only allowed to have an opinion of me, if that person is done educating him/herself on everything about me. Before people educate themselves on everything about you, they're not allowed to open their venomous mouthes and have an opinion about you. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#life #life-and-living #living #living-life #opinions

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school. ↗

— Libba Bray

#going-bovine #hell #school #education