"Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

#Kings Quotes #Lying Quotes #Dark Quotes

“That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.”

Source : Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holinessâ€”a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”
“All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.”

Source : Auguste Comte (1858). “The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte”, p.27
“In Russia, show the least athletic aptitude and they've got you dangling off the parallel bars with a leotard full of hormones.”
“I can't stay engaged for years with a book unless it has feelings. It can't be an idea for me - it has to be a felt thing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: EAT OR BE EATEN. He did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all.”
“We are not here in this world to drift like seaweed. Whatever intelligence we have, it is our duty to drive to the utmost.”

Source : Michael Foot (1984). “Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society”, HarperCollins
“A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”

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