#word

...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ... ↗

— John Geddes

#sensual-life #soul #superficial #wise-words #life

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them ... ↗

— Hart Crane

#life-lesson #words #life

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small. ↗

— Paul Auster

#reading #words #writing #life

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#constitution #depends #everything #laws #life

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cannot #faults #friend #friendship #him

Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#memories #words #life

This life will hit you--hard. In the face! It'll wait for you to get back up, just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you, is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air. ↗

— Sarah Kay poet

#life

Salvation is more than a word, It is His Word. His word became flesh so we have the opportunity to live. ↗

— Tabitha Robin

#life #live #opportunity #salvation #spiritual

The yogi sages say that all the pain of human life is caused by words, as is all the joy ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life

A word, once it has left your mouth, it cannot be uncalled. It cannot be nullified. People don’t understand how strongly they’re tied down because of it. But they continue to use that lock. Words are something living and sometimes, it can even tie down a person’s life. ↗

— xxxholic

#life