#wisdom

Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature. ↗

— John Gierach

#wisdom #death

We losers don't fear death. For us it's the end of a lifelong losing spell. ↗

— Dakota Dawn

#life #truth #wisdom #death

I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted with hunger. I am deep in the old man’s puzzle, trying to link the wisdom of the body with the wisdom of the spirit until the two are one. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#life-and-death #wisdom #death

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#death

The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#death #grief #inspirational #life #sadness

Nothing can be more painful than the cry of the word which gave us the inspiration to dream of love. ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#dreams

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#fear #fear-of-death #fear-of-failure #fear-of-unknown #psychic

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know. No man knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessing for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that is is the greatest of evil." (Socrates in The Apology) ↗

— Plato

#plato #wisdom #death

I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to call each other intelligent...Smart and wise people who score low on IQ tests, or patently intellectually defective ones, like the former U.S. president George W. Bush, who score high on them (130), are testing the test and not the reverse. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#intelligence #iq #nerd #nerdiness #nerds

A thin man can squeeze into a fat body, yet you can only squeeze a fat man to become thin ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #love #philosophy #quote #wisdom