"If death is inevitable, one should try to die well."

-- Mary Jo Putney

#Trying Quotes #Should Quotes #Inevitable Quotes

“Obviously the most oppressed of any oppressed group will be its women”
“When you're not allowed to stay up late, the secret is to just wake up really, really early.”

Source : Bill Amend (1997). “Come Closer, Roger, There's a Mosquito on Your Nose”, p.24, Andrews McMeel Publishing
“Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish loves: The decorative manias we obey Die in grimaces round us every day, Yet through their tohu-bohu comes a voice Which utters an absurd command - Rejoice.”
“An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.”

Source : William Landay (2012). “Defending Jacob: A Novel”, p.209, Delacorte Press
“If a person doesn't think there is a God to be accountable to, then-then what's the point of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? That's how I thought anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth, that we all just came from the slime. When we, when we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing”
“After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."”
“An honest man's the noblest work of God.”
“Complaints bring misery; compliments brings strength.”

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