#vita

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away. ↗

— Roberto Unger

#away #good #life #supreme #vitality

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#vitality #wisdom #youth #age

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#invitation #humor

…the trouble with oaths of the form, death before dishonor, is that eventually, given enough time and abrasion, they separate the world into two sorts of people: the dead, and the forsworn. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#death-before-dishonor #in-the-end #inevitable #oaths #the-dead

The ultimate affront, that neither hurries, grows weary nor forgets, is called death. ↗

— Ahmadou Kourouma

#inevitability #death

Man’s guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#existence #inevitable-progress #inverse-tower-of-babel #death