"I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly."

-- Henning Mankell

#Goodbye Quotes #People Quotes #Brain Quotes

“The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You lapse into bad taste, thinking of yourself as Heine's Atlas, whose shoulders support all the world's puzzles and agonies, as if thousands, lost in the same maze, did not endure the same agonies.”
“I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of Fiddler on the Roof when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.”
“Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you.”
“Wisdom comes with all we see, God writes His lessons in each flower, And ev'ry singing bird or bee Can teach us something of His power.”

Source : Maud Lindsay (2010). “Mother Stories”, p.64, Heart of Dixie Publishing
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”

Source : H. P. Lovecraft (2014). “Complete Collection Of H. P. Lovecraft - 150 eBooks With 100+ Audiobooks (Complete Collection Of Lovecraft's Fiction, Juvenilia, Poems, Essays And Collaborations)”, p.11, Ageless Reads
“If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much.”
“Do you have the heart to push yourself? If you don't, find a way to get it because talent will only get you so far. You've got to be hungry. You've got to have heart. That's just reality.”
“The noblest mind the best contentment has”

Source : Edmund Spenser, Roy Maynard (1999). “Fierce Wars and Faithful Loves: Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene”, p.32, Canon Press & Book Service

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