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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#remembrance #story-of-a-girl #memory

To weep is to make less the depth of grief. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#grief #sorrow #shakespeare

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#pleasure #sad #sorrow #sorrow

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese. ↗

— Iain Banks

#back #blade #blade runner #future #i

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.' ↗

— Neale Donald Walsch

#bible #calls #century #into #move

He met Austin's gaze over the top of Faith's head. "I sure hope your baby is a boy." "Reckon we need to even things out a little, don't we?" Rawley gave him a brusque nod. "We men folk are sorely outnumbered." Austin laughed, remembering a time when that was exactly what Dallas had wanted: more women out in West Texas. -Austin and Rawley ↗

— Lorraine Heath

#lorraine-heath #rawley #texas-splendor #faith

When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink. ↗

— John Keats

#poetry #death

Human beings have always yearned for serenity and inner peace. ↗

— Christopher Dines

#manifest-your-bliss #inner-peace

And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Suns”) ↗

— George Sterling

#armageddon #darkness #death #death

When has faith ever been about feelings? ↗

— Camy Tang

#faith #inspirational #spirituality #faith