"Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells."

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Source : Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

#Prayer Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Life Is Fragile Quotes

“The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.”
“This thing called love, it cries like a baby in a cradle all night. It swings, it jives, it shakes all over like a jelly fish. I kinda like it.”
“Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.”
“I don't want to hear what the price of meat is.”
“I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.”
“Whatever you don't turn into PRAISE turns into PRIDE.”
“Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.”
“If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.”

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