"I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid."

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Source : FaceBook post by Ruth Rendell from Sep 29, 2011

Ruth Rendell

#Thinking Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Humiliating Quotes

“Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous ***** to think that we can play golf without making a lot of bad shots?”
“People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.”
“The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost certainly deluded. If our actions do not come from a kind heart, from loving courage and compassion, they are deluded. If they are based on a distinction between 'us' and 'them,' they stem from delusion. Only to the extent that we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we are woven together, will our intention bring benefit.”
“And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.”
“She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants, and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has molded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.”

Source : Studies in the History of the Renaissance "Leonardo da Vinci" (1873)
“It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.”
“God is more interested in declaring than explaining.”
“The light of other days is faded, And all their glories past.”

Source : Alfred Bunn (1846). “The grand serious opera, entitled The maid of Artois. Words”, p.27

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