"How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?"

-- John Cheever

#Mean Quotes #People Quotes #Alarms Quotes

“Who amongst us doesn't want to be a hero?”
“Life is the flash in black heavens.”

Source : Henri Cazalis, “Always”
“If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.”
“Knowledge is the accumulation of facts wisdom is the deduction from these facts of useful laws, a process which can only take place by comparing the facts in one compartment with those in all others, thus giving a vision of the whole.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“Some of us are seeking happiness where it is and as a result are becoming happier. And others are seeking it blindly in the world where it is not and are becoming more frustrated.”
“There are no men more careful of the use of means than those that are surest of a good issue and conclusion, for the one stirs up diligence in the other. Assurance of the end stirs up diligence in the means. For the soul of a believing Christian knows that God has decreed both.”
“We fear death so profoundly, not because it means the end of our body, but because it means the end of our consciousness - better to be a spirit in Heaven than a zombie on Earth.”
“Offensive linemen are like salt. Nobody ever remembers the brand they buy.”

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