"Well, that was life. It was an old tree, and the old passed on. Probably they did not mind. There came a time when all sap ran slowly, and the peace of age with all things behind it merged easily into the peace of death. The difficult thing was to be young."

-- Mary Roberts Rinehart

#Tree Quotes #Mind Quotes #Age Quotes

“I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.”

Source : "The Public Speaking of Queen Elizabeth: Selections from Her Official Addresses".
“The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!”
“evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.”
“No notes. You speak from deep in your heart. It's easy.”
“I want to go out on my terms.”
“[S]ervants of darkness had no lasting joy in their service. In all of them the will for darkness was a perversion of the will for the light. In all but a few maniacs the satisfaction of the will for darkness was at all times countered by a revulsion which the unhappy spirit either dared not confess even to itself, or else rejected as cowardly and evil.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (1974). “Darkness and the light”, Hyperion Pr
“Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.”
“The sociopaths - that's the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can't find you.”

Source : Mat Johnson (2015). “Loving Day: A Novel”, p.6, Spiegel & Grau

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