"Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art."

-- Paul Theroux

#Death Quotes #Art Quotes #Love Life Quotes

“Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body”

Source : "Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims" by François de La Rochefoucauld, p. 108, 1665-1678.
“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.”

Source : Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.31, St. Martin's Press
“In the bacteriology lab, we have culture plates. You put a bug in there and it starts growing and gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And it grows until it finally fills the whole plate. And it crashes and dies.”
“There is such wonderful balm in self-imposed sacrifice.”
“As so often happens in marriage, roles that had begun almost playfully, to give line and shape to our lives, had hardened like suits of armor and taken us prisoner.”

Source : Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.12, iUniverse
“Now, two years have passed and the situation is completely different: no one wants to organise this match.”
“I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.”
“The Universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and the trees put it in theirs. We can read the story of the Universe in the trees. Everything tells the story of the Universe. The winds tell the story, literally, not just imaginatively. The story has its imprint everywhere, and that is why it is so important to know the story. If you do not know the story, in a sense you do not know yourself; you do not know anything.”

Source : Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry, Thomas E. Clarke, Anne Lonergan (1991). “Befriending the Earth: A Theology of Reconciliation Between Humans and the Earth”, Mystic, Conn. : Twenty-Third Publications

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