"Thus we live, forever taking leave."

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

#Spiritual Quotes #Forever Quotes #Dying Quotes

“I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.”
“If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.”
“My own great-grandfather, who said simply enough, "No wicked man could write such a book as this; and no good man would write it unless it were true and he were commanded of God to do so.”
“You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.”
“I don't have a problem with recognition ... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.' ... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality,'”
“I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough . . .”
“When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.”

Source : Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.152, Penguin
“Don't talk to me while I'm interrupting.”

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