#accidents

It was the ultimate cautionary tale, the moral being Don't fall, as if they were made of glass. In a sense they were--their fragility was irrefutable, medically proven--and yet Emily detested the inevitable rundown of accidents and tragedies, the more fortunate clucking their tongues and counting their blessings, all the while knowing it was just a matter of time. She didn't need to be reminded that she was a single misstep from disaster, especially here, without Henry, surrounded by the survivors of an earlier life. ↗

— Stewart O'Nan

#aging #vulnerability #age

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#literature #art

An accident you're in? It marks you on the outside, maybe. Scars your face or your skin-breaks bones,crushes skulls,leaves the body changed. An accident witnessed? You're different on the inside. Maybe there's no cut someone else can see, bu there're always injuries on the inside. Those take a long time to heal. ↗

— Carol Lynch Williams

#emotional-wounds #healing #injuries #change

A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#always #befall #changes #environment #healthy

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change. ↗

— Edward Levi

#appears #artificial #attempt #cause #change

I swear, the best things come to me by accident! Or should I say, effortless destiny? ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#destiny #effortless-destiny #inspirational-destiny #inspirational-living #inspirational-quotes

And off we go, out onto the highway looking for a little fun. Perhaps a flatbed truck loaded with human cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek reunion. One can only dream and hope. ↗

— George Carlin

#funny-accidents #humor #star-trek #dreams

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects. ↗

— Dave Barry

#contributing #factor #falling #gravity #involving

We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children. ↗

— Gloria Estefan

#aspirin #better #bottles #children #country

I have deposited some of my journals here for fear of accidents. ↗

— William John Wills

#deposited #fear #here #i #journals